Hardy failed

[Chan Chung Hang Christopher]

>> Your hard disk has had enough of you and is contemplating retiring for 
>> good. Please do consider spending more money on your hard disk by doing 
>> things like buying it a pet UPS, arranging for a girl friend to be its 
>> lifelong companion, getting it a power tool like a battery backed backup 
>> cache such as the I-RAM or, if you do not wish to spoil your hard disk, 
>> you can whip it into behaving by running fsck twice a day.
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>     Doubt that any of this is good advice :-)
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I am sure there is quite a crowd that does everything before the 'or' in 
some form and there are a few who do much more than run fsck twice a day 
when testing their disks. Of course the last bit is only done on new 
disks but I believe you picked up on the 'hint.'