John Corliss wrote:
Well, there's no need to reply at this point. That hard drive took a
dump completely this afternoon. I yanked it and set the slave up as
master, am running Windows from it as I type this. Thanks to everybody
who replied though.


I've had that happen. The time from "warning" to "death", can be short.

So short, that if you get a "warning", don't go to bed :-) Stay up
until you finish the backup. That's the lesson I learned. I went
to bed instead, because I was tired. And didn't get to save any
of my data.

Paul