Hard disks seem to hate me (and I am beginning to return the sentiment). This time I am really hit hard. After my iBook's internal disk died months ago, I switched to an external Logitec Firewire disk. It has recently started producing errors, but data loss was minimal and I ignored it. Here is a lesson: At the first signs of disk failures, get a new one. Well, I did not, and the Logitec died on me today. It looks like a severe hardware problem, and chances of recovery are slim. I lost a lot of data today, almost enough to move this post from the /tech to the /life category.