Ya, sounds like you have corruption probs. I would be very suspect of the files that were originally on that partition 3. Check them before you go putting them on other hard disks. (Sorry to be late with that advice)
BTW, thanks for the heads up on the SCSI protoccols. I didn't know that you should never turn off a SCSI device with the rest of the system on! Have been doing that for years with my scanner and never had a fried mobo. I did however fry my powerbook by not noticing it was sleeping when I plugged a zip disk into it. OUCH! > At 12:36 PM -0800 01/23/2003, Bill Neill wrote: > >URGENT HD Problem > > > >HELP! > > > >I have a 4 G hd that I have partitioned into 4 - 1 G partitions. > > ouch. Awfully small. Makes it corruption prone, IMO. > > >All has been working just fine, except last night, when I went to start > >up the 6500. > > > >Partition 1 was the loaded system and all went as expected, then the > >following 3 partitions would normally show as the start up completed. > > > >Here is the problem: after the first partition showed up the hd > >continued to make a grunt, grunt, pause, grunt, grunt, pause and so on > >and the load failed the the computer froze. > > The drive's partition (volume) map got corrupted. > > >Since this hd is in the portable SCSI enclosure, I can shut the power > >off and so I did just that, the load completed from the CD and I went > >to DISK SET UP. > > :( PLEASE say this was a drive NOT on your system's built-in SCSI > bus! The buses Apple uses are DO NOT support hot swapping and can be > DAMAGED by turning off a SCSI device once the bus is powered! IOW, > once your system has started booting, you can turn a SCSI device ON > but never ever OFF. And note that even doing that much is not > recommended by Apple. > > >I wanted to learn what was the problem, so I loaded Hard Disk Tool kit. > > > >In it was an option to DELETE VOLUME. > > > >I did this and the entire 1 G is GONE! > > You told HDTK to delete the volume. Why are you wondering that its > gone now? HDTK did what you told it to do! FWIW, after doing that, > you're lucky you can get access to any partition at all now! > Modifying things when a corruption such as this is present is Not a > good idea. > > STOP writing on that drive immediately! Use a tool such as Norton, > Disk Warrior, or even Apple's Disk First Aid to try to recover access > to what you can. Then make a backup and rebuild the partition map > (ie, reinitialize the drive from within HDTK) from scratch - cleanly. > > - Dan. > > -- > PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | > -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com > -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
