on 3/7/04 8:08 AM, Alan Kim at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Gregg Gorrie wrote: > >> Originally my FW drive came formatted with HDST v3.5 and it worked fine with >> that for a long time. Once the corruption pattern started, .......
> Gregg - > > Just as I was getting ready to post something your msg came through. > Davaed's comments may contain keys to solving your puzzle. > > Or, is it possible there is something going on in your System folder or > startup > drive ? > Maybe run a DiskWarrior and Optimizer to see if something is corrupt ? Have done this on my system drive as well as the FW hard drive. The OS 9.2.2 drive came up clean. As noted before, trying to run Disk Warrior (and/or Norton Utilities) on the FW drive results usually results in the utility app crashing and then the FW drive can no longer be mounted at all in OS9. Even using the OS9 Disk Utility to try and reinitialize will fail. I then have to go to OS X and the Disk Utility fixes it no problem. I have also used Disk Warrior in OSX and it appears everything is good, but when I boot back into OS9 it still has problems writing to the drive. > I don't recall you mentioning suspecting anything internal on your home > computer. > > Once or twice I've purged and started over, reformatting all the drives and > reinstalling the OS on the s900, which eliminated a few hiccups/quirks without > ever finding out what was causing the glitches. > > Alan Those were my thoughts as well, and I spent some time on the weekend backing up my OS 9.2.2 partition to prepare for a system reinstall. Then I had a better idea ... and started up from a 9.1 emergency disk I had made a year ago to see if the problem still came up. It did, so that minimizes the corrupt system theory. I'm looking at the possibility that something is wrong with the ADS Dual Link FW card I recently put it, however things did work fine for the first few weeks with that card, and I don't seem to have problems with my Digital 8mm or DVD-R burner on that FW bus. Also, there is not an issue in OSX with the FW hard drive on the ADS card, so ....? This one has me stumped. -- Gregg -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
