Before & After & Inbetween

If your 1TB drive suddenly pops cluster errors at you, you kind of know that the weekend is busted (as is your wallet, but that's another matter) - especially if you're paranoid regarding data loss!
So instead of working on FM yesterday afternoon and today, I raced around finding two 500 GB drives, a new USB 2.0 hub (because the TB is a firewire drive, which is nice but unfortunately expensive and two additional USB drives need more hubs than I had -- printer, scanner, graphics tablet, portable...) and spent the rest of the time copying material, rescuing data from the TB bad sectors, narrowing down losses (turns out: truly gone are currently 8 kB, but a drive already showing cluster errors cannot be relied on for data storage! Not when you want to sleep sound!) and overall setting up the system with two new drives - I'm going to keep the TB as kind of every day mirror, so that everything on it is also on at least one other drive - and realizing that I need another flash-protected power line. Will get that next week and use next weekend to do the rewiring...

Overall result: two shiny new drives; almost all the data rescued; and geek weight loss of 5 kg or more (at least).

But... I have scribbles for two of the three remaining issues in FM! So yay, for overclocked minds!