My G4s are experiencing data corruption issues: the QS 2002 Dual is (not always) spinning its rainbow beach ball while I try to Finder copy a particular file across my network, and the target machine, my Yikes! tries to DVD Player the copied VIDEO_TS file (which is evidently corrupt at a repeatable point), and freezes the entire OS X Tiger 10.4.11 system.
Replacing the VIDEO_TS file with a fresh MacTheRipper one cures the Yikes! Tiger freezing issue. The one on the QS Leopard machine might be a CCC of the corrupt one, having become corrupt due to a series of lba48 related trials and tribulations on my Yikes!. I may also have other issues with the replaced QS mobo, and / or a Seagate 750GB 7200.10, as I have experienced Finder freezes at seemingly random points in time lately. My Seagate 750 and 500 drives are about a year old from purchase date (Frys for the 750, and Circuit City for the 500). I'm suspecting Spotlight is raising data corrupted files ugly heads? ... making them show up while the system is trying to function elsewhere? ... is that possible? Is there a method of determining corruption of data on a hard drive partition? Perhaps a method of comparing an original file with a copy that may have become corrupt? I would prefer an app that would scan an entire partition and be able to determine if the files are good ... sounding a bit too general as I type. Bill Connelly artsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudio myspace: http://www.myspace.com/moonstoneartstudio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
