Jack Howarth wrote: > Robert, > If your drive has developed bad blocks, you will get > all sorts of oddities in building gcc42. I ran into that > with one of the two drives in my AppleRAID mirror earlier > in the year. You should try erasing the drive in Disk > Utility with zeroing of the data. If the drive is SATA > or IDE, this will force it to purge out those bad blocks. > Also if you have access to TechTool Deluxe (which Apple > distributes free to AppleCare owners), you can use it > to check for bad blocks afterwards (to make sure they > really have been spared out). > Jack
Thanks Jack. The disk has been erased and it has been zeroed out after the last major crash (~1 month ago). We don't have access to a current version of TechTool at the office, but my LAN admin is considering it. He's been holding off because he'd rather just get rid of all the Macs and I've been clutching my Mac and trying to get it to make do lest it go to the resale office. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
