I have a PowerBook G3 (Pismo, 500mhz, 1GB RAM) which has been running under 10.4 for some time. Recently, though, I've noticed some disk-related problems which I could use some help with.
The first problem appeared during an update for Office 2004. Like most installers, it popped up a dialog that it would be running a program to detect a suitable installation disk. When it came to that point in the install, however, do disks were shown, greyed out or otherwise. I have attempted to repeat this installation, even going so far as to download a new copy of the update, with the same issue. The next problem came when running Apple's Software Update. Basically, the progress bar gets to about 25% and stops updating. I've allowed this to run for hours with no further progress. Finally, in an attempt at resolving the first two problems, I ran the "Onyx" utility. Onyx hangs, however, while determining the SMART status of the drive. In order to fix the problem, I've tried the typically recommended fix of booting from the Tiger Install DVD, running Disk Utility and doing a Repair Permissions. Although a lot of permissions were fixed, the problems persisted with the next reboot. Interesting, it may be my imagination, but it seemed to take Disk Utility a long time to identify my disk. At this point, I'm starting to lean toward a failing hard disk (40 GB Hitachi TravelStar), but I was wondering if anyone had any other advice or, at least, pointers to an error log I could check (dmesg shows nothing useful). Thanks. John -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
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