On Mar 10, 2010, at 2:47 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > On Mar 10, 2010, at 3:40 PM, Elliott Price wrote: > >> I think my backup drive that I've been using as a TM drive (An Iomega eGo >> drive) screwed up something in my main hard drive's system; > > No. a TM volume is just another USB or Firewire removable drive, and cannot > affect your hard drive in that fashion. Time Machine itself is a file-level > program, and so can only access volumes, not devices, mucking about with the > boot partition is a device-level thing.
I really don't know that much about file systems, devices, and volume stuff... > >> I have the problem where my boot partition shows up as EFI boot in firmware, >> and recently, whenever it was plugged in, I would have strange problems that >> cleared up the instant I unplugged it. (Such as system processes with DEV in >> the name taking up 99% of my CPU power....) Needless to say, I haven't >> backed up for a few weeks. :P > > > 'the problem' indicates this is a known issue? I've heard other people say that their HD showed up as EFI boot... I forget why they said that happens. > > My suggestion would be to boot from your OS disk, and use Disk Utility to > check it's SMART status and run a repair pass on it. I've already run: Disk utility's permissions repair, repair disk, Disk Warrior, FSCK, reset P-ram. (on my internal HD.) I just completely reinstalled my OS & wiped my HD when I upgraded to Snow Leopard about 5-6 months ago, or whenever it came out. > > If it's ok, re-partition, and reformat your hard drive, re-install the OS and > use your backup drive to restore. > > I'd also be on the lookout for a new drive; because these kinds of issues are > often early warning signs of impending drive failure, SMART reported good or > not. Very typically after an incident like this, the SMART errors will start > appearing. I replaced the HD recently, last summer, with a 500Gb drive; so I don't think it's the drive itself, I'm pretty sure it's my system. When booted on my other smaller partition, everything works fine, and it shows up as a boot device in the firmware, instead of EFI boot. (I haven't tried hooking up my external drive while booted on this partition) I have no idea how or why, but whenever that Iomega drive is hooked up, I have troubles with sleeping, waking, system crashes, etc. that all go away when I unplug it. -Elliott Price Quoit - Macintosh Computer Services hobbittech.com/quoit -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist