In a message dated 11/22/99 1:07:48 AM, you wrote:
<<I ask because I simply wanted to view a two-minute streamed news clip. Not
too hard, right? Well, the morons encoded it with Windows Media Player --
but still, MS has a Mac version on their website. So I download it, and
start playing the clip.
After watching for ~30sec, FREEZE! Have to give the thing the Vulcan Nerve
Pinch(tm), and go to grab a snack.
Come back, the thing finished booting up. I'm greeted by a disk in
unrecognizable format dialog. I hit eject, resist the urge to curse the
thing out and wake everyone up, and go to Norton.>>
You should've looked in alt.hackintosh, someone else reported a similar
experience, I believe
<<Norton starts doing some serious repair (which it is set to 'auto-repair'
for). I'll read the log later. Or so I think. Norton decides to unmount the
disk for a repair or two, and the fucking morons who wrote the disk driver
don't know the difference between 'unmount' and 'eject'. Remind me to kill
them later.
Not the worst problem; I can re-insert a disk. I've gotten used to those
dimwits. But then, the Finder decides it does not like disk ejections, and
proceeds to crash.
I then am staring at a MacsBug screen, and ready to REALLY start cursing
this thing. Since this has happened before -- someone at Apple apparently
does not properly understand ejectable media -- maybe that's why they got
rid of the floppies on the iMac? -- buut anyway, I hit 'es'. Works every
other time.>>
Diskwarrior is better than norton for filing system related problems.
