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umass0: on uhub0
umass0: Get Max Lun not supported (STALLED)
da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-4 device
da0: 1.000MB/s transfers
da0: Attempt to query device size failed: ILLEGAL REQUEST, Invalid command operation
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SERVICE ACTION IN(16). CDB: 9e 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:20,0
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Invalid command operation code
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Unretryable error


The messages above were the last thing a FreeBSD box could say about my now defunct external hard drive.

The drive had been connected to my home iMac and to my old PC for a couple of years. I used it primarily for storing lots of music files, as well as for keeping very old and unused files out of the desktop’s internal disk.

The drive was working just fine until the other day when, all of a sudden, it started making a weird noise. I was no longer able to read data from it. Un-mounting and re-mounting it didn’t work either, so I took it to the office, where I disassembled it and put into the FreeBSD box I have there. It was my last resort, to try to use it as an internal disk to get the data out of it. You already know the rest of the story…

So, unless I plan to spend a good amount of money to send it to a disk saver service, I’ll have to resign and say goodbye to all the precious data that was stored there, specially data from both my old Environmental Microbiology and Bioinformatics theses

I can’t figure out how much weight I’ve gained during this month but it’s starting to worry me. Need to start a diet really soon, as well as real training. I want to be back to a semi-human form

We have also had our engineering team party and, of course, we have been enjoying the beginning of the real Winter here in Canada. It has been snowing almost daily since Monday.

We were planning a ski outing with the whole team for today but, unfortunately, a strong snowstorm kicked in and there was no other option than to remain snowed-in inside our hotel (and our friends inside their homes).

So it seems like we’ll have to wait until the storm ceases so we are able to do something in the weekend, before flying back to Mexico City. My fingers are crossed…

As an almost traditional thing, we celebrated our race finish by eating flautas at Tacos Chelo in Av. Coyoacán

We got to the car after 3 hours of hiking, she slept on my leg during the trip back home

Rest of the pictures are here.