On Oct 14, 2008, at 1:06 AM, Paul wrote: > My G4 (Gigabit) tower has both 10.4 and 9.2.2 installed. I can use OS > 9 both as Classic under OS X and as a bootable system. > > When I run the OS X Disk Utility, it ends with fixing the disk errors > it finds, and then not finding any more errors. When I had run the OS > 9 Disk First Aid before I knew about Disk Utility, it would find, fix, > and then re-find the same error, which was too often my experience > with older Mac systems. > > After fixing everything with Disk Utility, I rebooted to OS 9 and > tried Disk First Aid just as a final check. To my mild surprise, it > proceeded to find a whole bunch of new errors. I wasn't about to have > it try to fix them, but I'm left wondering what's gong on. I assume > the drive is fine for running OX X, but will I have odd problems > booting OS 9?
This is a good reason to place OS 9 and OS X on separate partitions. I don't think it's good practice to ever use OS 9's Disk First Aid on any partition that has OS X installed. I don't think Disk Utility can hurt OS 9, so it's probably safe to run the latest version of Disk Utility on a volume with combined OS 9 & OS X. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
