At 3:38 AM -0800 11/7/2008, yawg wrote: Please remember to BOTTOM post and TRIM on these LEM lists. It makes tracking support issues MUCH easier.
>I know about aliases, have been working with Macs for 18 years. The >question marks aside the apps themselves don't work when I open >them in ther real folders. Ok. I'm pre-coffee... so... 18 years huh? Then why didn't you bother to say that the apps themselves don't work???? That does kindof change the WHOLE nature of the issue... </rant> >My disks seem to be fine. Except that you have fatal i/o error on the source and your destination is obviously corrupted, since apps aren't working right. >What does input/output error actually mean? That the file is >busy when being cloned? No, not busy. It means rsync tried to read the data from the HD and it FAILED. The hard drive refused to provide the data because of a FATAL error. Either the hard drive had a controller problem or the the data blocks involved have become unreadable. Further details might be available in your system log. >Can I just look up the BootX file on an installer CD and replace the >flaky one with that? IFF (If and ONLY if) it's just those files or directories involved, then yes. BUT given your other issues, I'm wondering what else has died on that drive. I'm thinking you need to find out how bad the problem is. It may be that your source drive is dying. It may be that the media just grew a few bad blocks. You need to get your user data backed up, check the log files, then repave that whole drive (all its volumes). Erase / Zero it, at least two passes, to make sure all the bad blocks get mapped out. Check the logs to make sure there were no fatal controller errors. If none, then it might be safe to reload it from scratch. ...If the backups you have are block-level clones, then you might not be able to trust them! A perfect copy of corrupted data is itself corrupted... HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
