porcupine tree - mellotron scratch
iron and wine - free until they cut me down
paul schwartz - dido
sophie zelmani - hard to know
dove - firesuite
kasabian - ovary stripe
Update: OH MY GOSH guys I’ve found the best _legal_ mp3 download site ever! I’ve purchased all the above from www.allofmp3.com!
Sunday, after working all day long on the powerbook, I suddenly heard the hard disk doing silly noises, then the mp3 playback stopped and the system halted. I’ve restarted, but it could’n start the OS. I booted the installation DVD in Rescue mode, and in the Disk utility application, the following error message welcomed me:
Invalid Volume HeaderError: The underlying task reported failure on exit
Checking HFS Plus volume…
Checking Extends Overflow file… Invalid node structure
The volume Thora could not be repaired after 3 attempts.
1 HFS volume checked
1 volume could not be repaired because of an error
Repair attempted on 1 volume
1 volume could not be repaired
Holy fuck! All my 55+ gigabytes of data is lost?! I called my friend immediately, and he handed a DiskWarrior CD, but I no longer trusted the original HDD, so I bought a new one - a Samsung 5400/8Mb cached 80G - to replace the old 60G 4700/2Mb one. I also bought a Firewire/USB craddle, and an LG DVD-RAM/DVDRW+ writer.
I successfully restored the system with DiskWarrior, and after I CCC-d (a copy application using ditto and psync) the whole old drive to the new one. Afterwards, I booted from the firewire disk, and nothing happened. Sweet Jesus, I spent 90+ minutes for nothing? A complete reinstall would only cost 30… Then I realized the following:
1) The FW connection mysteriously lost in the copy process at 90%, and the symlink under /Volumes/ (/Volumes/FW-backup) reverted to a single folder (!) instead of a link to /dev/sdisk3, so I just copied over from one directory to another…
2) The CCC was unable to copy all kernel files from the root folder. mac.sym mach_kernel were missing, so I needed to copy them manually. After the restart, everything worked as expected, so I was ready for the operation 
I opened and disassembled the Powerbook (as I did several times before) and now I’m writing this article onto the new drive. The old one will be used as another HDD in the Intel-laptop (the current host of Windows Vista and Ubuntu) and the laptop’s old drive will function as an external HDD via a 2,5″ $10 usb-craddle.
(I’m still planing to upgrade my iPod, indeed - see the previous article :))
