Re: [OT] bad disk & MacOS reinstall

2024-05-18 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
tes, that was the problem. Whatever it does automatically to understand what type of drive it sees isn't very good, at least with what I've got. I'll stick to the command line tools. > On May 18, 2024, at 02:51, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On May 18, 2024, at 01:46, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: >>

Re: [OT] bad disk & MacOS reinstall

2024-05-18 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On May 18, 2024, at 01:46, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > > dyld[16578]: Symbol not found: (_gtk_plug_construct) > Referenced from: '/opt/local/lib/libgtkmm-3.0.1.dylib' > Expected in: '/opt/local/lib/libgtk-3.0.dylib' > Abort Are you using the quartz variant? This error was mentioned before

Re: [OT] bad disk & MacOS reinstall

2024-05-18 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Ok, I tried that driver, and it doesn't work for any external USB I have. An external Thunderbolt drive should just work, no driver for SMART support needed. My LaCie did, anyway - on the Thunderbolt interface, using Apple's Thunderbolt 2 to 3 adapter. Though that drive had a USB interface too,

Re: [OT] bad disk & MacOS reinstall

2024-05-17 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
The port smartmontools includes the command line tool. The port gsmartcontrol provides a GUI on top of that, if you want (I've never tried the latter). It won't work on USB drives without a kernel driver (not available in MacPorts). https://binaryfruit.com/drivedx/usb-drive-support

Re: [OT] bad disk & MacOS reinstall

2024-05-17 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On May 17, 2024, at 17:57, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > Does Macports have a tool to get SMART details? The one that occurs to me is: https://ports.macports.org/port/smartmontools

Re: [OT] bad disk & MacOS reinstall

2024-05-17 Thread Riccardo Mottola via macports-users
Hi, Horst Simon wrote: I had todo a re-install on my 2010 MacBook Pro with High Sierra from scratch, my copy of High sierra I had was corrupted and caused my all kind of grief. I finally downloaded a new copy on my iMac using the command line Got a new disk. Using recovery partition I tried

Re: [OT] bad disk & MacOS reinstall

2024-05-05 Thread Horst Simon via macports-users
I had todo a re-install on my 2010 MacBook Pro with High Sierra from scratch, my copy of High sierra I had was corrupted and caused my all kind of grief. I finally downloaded a new copy on my iMac using the command line softwareupdate --list-full-installers softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer

[OT] bad disk & MacOS reinstall

2024-05-05 Thread Riccardo Mottola via macports-users
Hi all, I have a slightly off-topic question. I think the Hard Disk of my older MacBook Pro is failing. The computer has long delays sometimes, in random moments. Maybe at login, maybe at application startup. I never see error and when activity resumes, everything goes fine, including GIT