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From: Peter Ashby on 11 Mar 2010 18:16
Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote:

> > An interesting bit of
> > surgery that. I had hoped the drive swap, bigger as well, might fix the
> > problem. But no dice, it just made it a bit better.
>
> Describe the changes in symptoms - could be useful to nail the fault.

heh, the old drive was in a real state. The Finder would crash for eg.
hasn't happened since. Before the end it was a matter of iteration after
iteration that never ended you just gave up and saw if it would restart.
IT poisoned the firewire bus too, which was unhelpful. Even after
putting it in an external enclosure it still poisons the FW ports even
after a full reformating (1st as a Dos disc, then Journaled, writing
zeros). I bought a dual FW/USB2 enclosure though so it is still useful.

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From: Rowland McDonnell on 12 Mar 2010 00:32
Peter Ashby <pashby(a)blueyonder.co.ruk> wrote:

> Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote:
>
> > > An interesting bit of
> > > surgery that. I had hoped the drive swap, bigger as well, might fix the
> > > problem. But no dice, it just made it a bit better.
> >
> > Describe the changes in symptoms - could be useful to nail the fault.
>
> heh, the old drive was in a real state. The Finder would crash for eg.
> hasn't happened since. Before the end it was a matter of iteration after
> iteration that never ended you just gave up and saw if it would restart.
> IT poisoned the firewire bus too, which was unhelpful. Even after
> putting it in an external enclosure it still poisons the FW ports even
> after a full reformating (1st as a Dos disc, then Journaled, writing
> zeros). I bought a dual FW/USB2 enclosure though so it is still useful.

Okay. Coo.

Bizarre...

One wonders if the fault is on the interface electronics, given the
symptoms.

Rowland.
(musing)

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