Thursday, Nov. 07, 2002
After nearly six years of loyal work, my 1.2 gigabyte harddrive, affectionately named "My Guinness" after the Irish beer , devowered itself in a chain reaction of magnetic misfires. In mid-October Norton Disk Utilities was brought in to aleviate the new-found problems, but was unable to revitalize any part of the SCSI volume. My Guiness failed to respond to SCSI probes and was pronounced inoperable on November 2.

My Guinness, built by Seagate, was first put into service in 1995 after the purchase of a Macintosh-clone computer from Power Computing Corp. The unit ran on a Motorola 603ev PowerPC processor. For all the years it was in operation My Guinness served as primary start-up drive for all other SCSI-based devices, including the 1.5-GB SyJet removeable harddrive, and the twin 18-GB video editing drives known as "wwF" and "WcW". ("wwF" now operates as primary harddrive under the name "The Terror" after the unresolved manslaughter of "WcW" in Denver, CO in November 2000.)

For the last three years My Guinness worked in coordination with Mud Shark, a 540-MB full-height drive, afectionately named after an Olympia, Washington micro brew. The information stored within Mud Shark has since been incorporated into The Terror, and the drive itself has been unplugged and removed.

My Guinness will forever be remembered as a fearless and relentless worker, blindly devoted to its master, and an unparralleled leader of early-90s SCSI hardware.

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