Hey all. Hope you can help me out. I have a 7300/180 with 256 mb, w/8.6 OS. I have been having a problem with it freezing up randomly( I think anyhow)
Install MacsBug, so you can get a look at what caused the failure.
What else is on your SCSI chain? Make sure your SCSI chain is properly terminated. Badly terminated chains often cause "random" Finder deaths.
question #2...on a whim I ran disk first aid on the 8.5 install CD, and under the category where it said it was checking the catalog file it said "custom Icon missing 430,155 , custom icon missing 431,154. What's up with that?
Rudimentary holes in your file system, basically broken links to the icon files. Probably caused by all those freezes. Run a couple of repair passes with DFA.
question #3...I have a 4gig IBM HD DFHS S4F on the SCSI 1 that I tried to install the apple driver after formatting. It told me that it was a non-apple drive and need to have the correct driver(duh) Today I used HD Toolkit 3.0 to install its driver on this HD, seemed to work, but when checking it on the 8.5 disk utilities it told me that it is not a supported drive. Any problems with this or should I just ignore it?
Apple's tools will always complain the drive is unsupported. Doesn't matter, if you've got a decent 3rd party driver on it.
HDTK 3.0 or 3.0.2? Version 3.0.2 is the minimum recommended version for Mac OS 8.6. There is a free updater available. After applying it, update the driver on that hard drive. Of course, always do a full backup before updating any HD drivers.
- Dan.
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