Eventually, I started to get kernel panics (back in February 2007 — I found the emails), and so I logged bugs (heck, Leopard was in beta, and panics do happen). I didn’t even read the panic titles, which were: “..IOATABlockStorageDriverV2.cpp:2302 “ATA Device recovery failed\n”.

Our panic debug team replied back “The message says it all. Your drive is dying. A trip to OnSite is in your near future.” (OnSite is our on site hardware repair guys).

Luckily, I had been playing with Time Machine and backing my home directory. I hadn’t run the backup for about a week, but I wasn’t using that machine too much at that time. So, I bought a new Mac Book Pro, and installed the internal Leopard build. This was before we had the “restore from time machine backup” option, so I simply “dittoed” over everything from my backup drive (the way Time Machine creates sym links made this simple). It worked GREAT, and it saved my ass. I still have my failed hard drive (now replaced with a new hard drive). There is no bs here, and I was probably one of the first people to really be saved by Time Machine.

I’m used not to trust release notes when they say that something is fixed but now if one can’t even trust them when they state something is not working…

On this weblog,I don’t shill for Apple or anyone else. This is my weblog, my voice, and my words.

I certainly choose not to write some stuff because my employment would make doing so uncomfortable or inappropriate, but I have never and will never shill for anyone’s products.

I’m perfectly happy writing a glowing and enthusiastic review for a product — regardless of manufacturer — but only if I believe it and/or know it to be true.. And I’m certainly quite happy to have free stuff sent to me so I can post reviews in this particular forum, but sender beware that it’ll only be positive if I like the stuff.

I know Corbin, too, and he ain’t no shill either.

Time Machine saved my ass. Period.

While I can’t disclose why because of NDA on Leopard seeds, I’m wondering whether this is the start of a new season of marketing bullshits (first season was broadcasted on developer.apple.com and was titled “Xcode 1.0 is great, use it!”) or it’s just the contents of release notes that was bullshit.