On 4 Aug 2010, at 15:13, Al Poulin <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Aug 4, 4:02 am, Mike Linnett <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Howdy all,
>> 
>> Is it advisable to use leopards disk utility to repair a drive with tiger 
>> installed on it, or is that likely to mess things up on the tiger volume?
>> 
>> Backstory is that I'm visiting my grandmother who has an iMac g3 running 
>> tiger, and I thought I'd run through onyx's maintenance stuff while I'm here 
>> and it says to boot from the install disk to repair the hard drive, but I'm 
>> sans install disk, but do have my PowerBook with me, which is running 
>> leopard. I figured I'd boot the iMac into target disk mode and repair it 
>> from the PowerBook, but slightly concerned about the different os versions.
> 
> On a hunch, I would download the Tiger version of OnyX to the
> PowerBook and use that to treat the iMac.  And I would check to see if
> there is a difference between OnyX versions for G3/4/5 machines as
> opposed to Intel machines.
> 
> Al Poulin
> 
> 

Ahh well, I repaired the disk (twice, to be sure) from leopard, re-ran the 
tests and stuff and it all seems to be ok. From what I can see there's 
different versions of onyx based on which version of osx you're running, but 
that's about it.

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