When I first took the outfit to the office the Mini was running for days before I started the backup, but no backups were made, which I didn't realize until I took the Mini for repairs but when I returned and started the Mini at the same time I started the G-Technologies and then the Min would not boot. When back from Apple I also began the backup at the same time as the Mini so I have no idea other than moving them about a foot apart stopped all the problems.
John On Nov 1, 2012, at 9:00 PM, Jonathan Fletcher wrote: > Wow, John, that so sounds like it was the G-Drive's much more powerful 3.5" > disk's magnetic field interfering with the "laptop" 2.5" drive in the Mini! > > Nice to know, since I have a similar setup! Haven't had any problems yet, but > it's good information, just in case. > > j. > > > On Nov 1, 2012, at 8:04 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This story may have NO relevance to what happened to my hard drive but it is >> sure strange. >> >> I took a MacMini Server and converted to a regular Mac, took to my office >> along with an ethernet switch, superdrive, firewire hub, Airport Extreme AND >> a G-Technologies 3TB TimeMachine backup drive. When I first took it all was >> well, the machine is just over a year old, it's one of the newer Mini's with >> the plastic like cover over the bottom that twist off so access to the >> inside is much easier then the old Mini's. >> >> The machine ran day and night but when going on vacation I felt I may as >> well shut everything down. When I returned it would not boot, tried >> everything and finally had to schedule a Genius bar appointment. Sure >> enough, for some reason while it was shut off the primary hard drive had >> gone bad, so Apple installed a new one. >> >> I brought it back and it would hardly run, I mean it took close to an hour >> to boot, then I couldn't do a thing with it. Scheduled another Genius >> appointment and they once again erased the hard drive and installed Mountain >> Lion again. Got it to the office and the same thing continued to happen, >> but it didn't at the Apple store. >> >> What the heck? At the remote chance the G-Technology backup drive was >> interfering (I had the Mini sitting right on top of the backup drive so with >> the plastic bottom the metal on the firewire drive was really just >> millimeters from the working of the Mini. As soon as I moved the >> G-Technologies drive to a shelf below the Mini everything began working >> perfectly. Unreal, how is this possible? How could the backup have >> destroyed the original disk and why was it making the machine so slow? It >> continued to take about an hour to boot, took Safari about 30 min. to load, >> iTunes would never load. As soon as I separated the two everything was fine. >> >> Maybe a fluke, but I wanted to pass along just in case anyone was doing as I >> was with a Mini. > > > > -- > Jonathan Fletcher > FileMaker 9/10/11/12 Certified Developer > > Fletcher Data Consulting > [email protected] > http://www.fletcherdata.com > 502-509-7137 > > Personal Blog o'Stuff: http://jfletch.posterous.com > > Kentuckiana's FileMaker Developers Group > Next meeting: Tuesday, October 30th, 12:00 pm to 3:30-ish > Blog: http://www.kyfmp.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
