Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Feb 3, 2005, at 6:18 PM, Charles Davis wrote:
I immediately trashed Firefox, Thunderbird, Camino, Netscape. Safari is still on the Finder, but has not been used.
Anyone have any information/ideas?
NONE of those programs had this effect. This is deeper, likely a drive or logic-board problem.
'Delete on download' setting is in the prefs on each mail program. I don't use POP mail, so I'm not sure where.
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Bruce Johnson
Thanks for the thoughts Bruce.
The 'Program deletions' was somewhat of a 'knee jerk' reaction. (Not quite "Kill the Messenger".
On the E-Mail, that's the sort of thing I've not found. Need to look some more.
The 'Boot sector' demise has happened on two different Hard Disks, so I kind of don't think it's a HD problem. (Thinking back, the other time, it happened on a SCSI disk.)
A "Board" logic problem ? I can't envision a set of circumstances where 'Board' problems would manifest itself as a whole sector write to a hard disk.
However I can think of a possible 'program' glitch that would act this way. See if you follow this.
To control 'boot' location, there are things set (program parts in NVRAM, and PRAM, AND the boot sector of the target HD for selecting WHICH of several partitions to boot from.) This is what the 'Boot device, and System Disk' programs are supposed to work on.
Now suppose that as a part of the program, it reads the 'boot sector' makes any needed changes and then writes the corrected 'boot sector' back to the disk.
Examination of the 'boot sector' reveals "no changes needed" --- Here is where the problem comes in!!!!
IF the programmer decided that there WOULD be a write cycle, and mistakenly assumed that to "NOT write something" (no change needed) was the same as to 'write nothing', you can see where the 'nulls would come from.
What say ye!!
Chuck D.
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