Invalid Sibling Link?

2013-12-12 Thread Glen
Spec's: G4 Sawtooth upgraded with a dual 1.25 GHz processor, 2 GB RAM, 2-100 GB HDD's, OS 10.4.11. This G4 has been rock solid for a number of years following all upgrades. Today I found a frozen screen saver and no response to keyboard and mouse commands. No hardware or software changes have

Re: Invalid Sibling Link?

2013-12-12 Thread Cameron Kaiser
The normal boot drive was not mounted and would not mount with Disk Utility. I ran Disk First Aid on the damaged volume and received the message: Invalid Sibling Link Volume Check Failed My HFS-fu is not as strong as it used to be, but this is (I believe) a problem with the B-tree. This is

Re: Invalid Sibling Link?

2013-12-12 Thread Glen
From: Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com If you need to get up and running right away, then I'd do that. Otherwise, pick up a copy of DiskWarrior; Alsoft still sells PowerPC compatible versions all the way back to OS 9. Thanks for the quick response. I

Re: Invalid Sibling Link?

2013-12-12 Thread hugh heater
Try re-setting the PRAM On Thursday, December 12, 2013 6:38:55 PM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: The normal boot drive was not mounted and would not mount with Disk Utility. I ran Disk First Aid on the damaged volume and received the message: Invalid Sibling Link Volume

Re: G4 iMac display swap?

2013-12-12 Thread John Carmonne
On Dec 8, 2013, at 7:10 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: Anyone know if I can fit a 17 display with housing to a iMac G4 that has an existing 15 display at the goose neck level? I'd be really careful about that. I'm not sure if the base is weighted enough for a 17 (I *know* it isn't for a 20).

Re: G4 iMac display swap?

2013-12-12 Thread Cameron Kaiser
I don't think the weight with a 17 would be an issue, but what about connectivity? Is the hardware the same at the goose neck? Would the MOBO be the same? I don't know about the motherboard, but Apple used at least two different kinds of displays, even within the same specific model. The necks

Re: Invalid Sibling Link?

2013-12-12 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Try re-setting the PRAM That won't help a disk error. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Wherever I go, there's I AM. ---

Re: G4 iMac display swap?

2013-12-12 Thread John Carmonne
On Dec 12, 2013, at 6:24 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: I don't think the weight with a 17 would be an issue, but what about connectivity? Is the hardware the same at the goose neck? Would the MOBO be the same? I don't know about the motherboard, but Apple used at least two different kinds of