Hi Dan, > 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>
I said literally "the programs don't work". > >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. All apps work perfectly. Only about half of my classic apps stopped working under Tiger (like Illustrator 9 and all 3 Quark XPress versions I use) i.e. directly after the "upgrade" they became unavailable. Under Panther everything is still perfect. > >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. I did a file-level clone with the new CCC under Tiger and everything went well. So perhaps the old CCC apps had some bugs? > >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. The error occurred always only on the BootX-file. Before the error occurred I was successfully cloning both my drives twice a week w/o any errors. The few errors I had before were probably caused because in the beginning I was cloning in the background thus actually changing the drive I was cloning ... But now the clincher: When I was busy replacing the BootX file from an older Panther clone on a FireWire drive I accidentally put the > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
