At 10:20 AM -0400 8/7/2009, Bill Connelly wrote: >On Aug 7, 2009, at 2:46 AM, Dan wrote: > > At 10:15 PM -0400 8/6/2009, Bill Connelly wrote: >>>>> On Aug 1, 2:24 pm, Bill Connelly <billycarm...@verizon.net> wrote: >>>>>> In my QS 2002 Dual 1GHz under 10.5.7, my "750GB Seagate PATA is >>>>>> Dropping Out Again". >>> >>> Well it dropped out again. After moving it back from an external FW >>> enclosure, it started up with multiple "Bus Errors" and eventually >>> dropped off the Desktop. >> >> What does it show in the system log? > >I can't tell. I'll send Dan a copy. > >I had started Spotlight again, since I had turned it off to simplify >things, but I was getting a message like: >Aug 7 10:00:18 Moonstone-Art-Studio /Applications/Utilities/ >Console.app/Contents/MacOS/Console[285]: installAutoFSMonitor: open >failed
Turn Spotlight's indexing OFF. Leave it OFF. Simplify the problem. If you're having problems with a HD, the LAST thing you want is something perusing and WRITING to it all the time. That's a sure way to corrupt things. Looking thru the log you sent..... Jul 28 00:00:13 Moonstone-Art-Studio kernel[0]: IOATAController device blocking bus. Not good. That and other messages point to the data path between the bus and the drive being foo - iow, replace that cable etc. There are so many write type failures in the log... Can't really tell if it's corrupted or not, but I'm thinking it might not be a good idea to trust the data thereon anymore. Once you get the hardware issues settled, erase then reload it from your backup. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
