[ale] Mac's version of BSD

[Justin Goldberg]

I almost always google the error messages I see. What message did she have?

On 5/13/12, Drifter <drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:
> I am essentially clueless about the underpinnings of a Mac.
> But, given the recent discussions on failing hard drives, I couldn't help
> but remember my wife's recent PAIN -- the HD in her Mac laptop died and
> that's when she discovered that her backup drive had died a week or so
> earlier.  (She hadn't understood the error messages she was getting.)
> Two new hard drives later she is trying to recover what she can.
>
> So this afternoon I checked and the command <smartctl> is not on her
> machine.  Is it available?  If so, what is the download/install procedure?
>
> Sean
>
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