Best Regards, /\*_*/\
On Aug 8, 2005, at 11:17 PM, Nancy Haitz wrote:
A few weeks ago I bought a used G4/533 Digital Audio. This evening I
had shut down the system to install a new 512MB RAM chip and a small
hard drive on which I planned to install OS 9.2. When I started back
up I got a message from DiskWarrior announcing a problem with the main
drive that said something to the effect that my hard drive was about
to fail.
Needless to say, I have not done any backups of this system. I don't
even have all my software installed and configured to my liking yet!
What is the quickest safest way to copy my system over to another
drive? I have used Carbon Copy Cloner in the past, and it looks like
there is a Tiger version now.
The drive is a 40GB Maxtor. I am running OS 10.4.2. The system is
currently shut down.
Looks like I better dig through the trash for that post from Harry
about cheap hard drives from Fry's...
Nancy
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My question is: How does DiskWarrior and Mac "Disk Utility" know that
the hard drive is about to fail. I thought that this was only a feature
of the new SATA drives.
If the disk has to make more than one try to write or read data, I
didn't know that, that information is available to the outside world.
However since there are so many interface's perhaps one of them
(besides SATA) supports information regarding the internal operations
of the drive.
There is:
ATA: Known also as IDE, supports one or two hard drives, a 16-bit
interface and PIO modes 0, 1 and 2.
ATA-2: Supports faster PIO modes (3 and 4) and multiword DMA modes (1
and 2). Also supports logical block addressing (LBA) and block
transfers. ATA-2 is marketed as Fast ATA and Enhanced IDE (EIDE).
ATA-3: Minor revision to ATA-2.
Ultra-ATA: Also called Ultra-DMA, ATA-33, and DMA-33, supports
multiword DMA mode 3 running at 33 MBps.
ATA/66: A version of ATA proposed by Quantum Corporation, and supported
by Intel, that doubles ATA's throughput to 66 MBps.
ATA/100: An updated version of ATA/66 that increases data transfer
rates to 100 MBps.
So it would take a lot of research to find out what information
DiskWarrior has available.
Harry (*^_^*)
? We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing
through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love...
and then we return home.
Australian Aboriginal proverb
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