9:06:52 PM inferiorminion: I couldn't believe how many hardware failures happened at once last night
9:06:57 PM velduanga: O_o??
9:08:06 PM inferiorminion: HD failure
9:08:43 PM inferiorminion: Bad sectors or something
9:09:00 PM velduanga: 
9:09:01 PM inferiorminion: It was the backup HD, though.  So no worries, right.....
9:09:03 PM inferiorminion: .....wrong 
9:10:04 PM inferiorminion: During the bootup process, the fstab tries to load the 2nd HD and fails
9:10:52 PM inferiorminion: Kernel panics and falls back to terminal
9:11:10 PM inferiorminion: ...OK....so I'll just remove the 2nd HD from the fstab
9:11:19 PM velduanga: O_o;
9:11:45 PM inferiorminion: .....nope......the working HD is mounted in Read Only mode!!!!  WTF!!! WHY DROP TO SHELL IF IT'S GOING TO BE READ ONLY!!!! 
9:12:08 PM inferiorminion: OK....ok....no problem.  I have a rescue disk I can boot off of to mount the drive
9:12:47 PM inferiorminion: Only....when I push the drive's button, the motor whirs, but the drive bay doesn't open
9:14:22 PM velduanga: O_O
9:14:28 PM velduanga: this is like
9:14:34 PM velduanga: from a sitcom
9:14:35 PM velduanga: @_@
9:15:40 PM inferiorminion: Grab a paper-clip to pry it open
9:16:25 PM inferiorminion: The band around two of the gears had completely snapped!!!!!  
9:16:36 PM velduanga: ....
9:16:39 PM velduanga: what in gods
9:16:58 PM inferiorminion: YEAH!!  WTF!!!!
9:17:13 PM inferiorminion: Tried the CD anyways...didn't work
9:17:30 PM inferiorminion: Luckily I have two drives, right
9:18:16 PM inferiorminion: I'll just put the CD into that one.....and.....WTF!!!!!  HOW IS YOUR BAND BROKEN TOO!!!!!! 
9:18:32 PM velduanga: >__<
9:21:07 PM velduanga: I think thats a sign
9:21:07 PM velduanga: XDw