>I know that they used to come in 80 gb size ... (one guess how I know that)
Whoops! My drive is a 60 GB, not an 80. Meanwhile, smartctl reports that the SMART status of the drive is good. Reallocated sector count: 0 Power on time: 46,848 hours (near old age limit ...) Oddly, there is a non-empty error log ... "Error: UNC 36 sectors at LBA 743132", multiple times. Preceded by READ DMA EXT commands. ... (30 minutes of playing with smartctl later) Well, gee. dd if=/dev/rdisk0 of=/dev/null bs=512 count=20 skip=743132 will read from the disk with no problem. But smartctl -t short disk0 results in a failed smart self-test at the same place. This drive is ... difficult to understand. smartctl -a reports that it supports automatic offline data collection, but it is turned off. Attempting to turn that on gives an error message. Ditto for attempting to manually specify a sector range to test. Yea ... I remember now, I played with this exact same thing 5 years ago, got the same errors / testing would not actually happen, and never bothered to set up automatic testing with smartd because it wouldn't work. But the selftest log shows that I did a number of tests back then, all of which passed. > > On 2016-03-26, at 7:14 PM, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> wrote: > >> I believe it would use an Ultra ATA/100 hard drive (60GB?). Not sure about >> availability of those anymore... >> -Carl >> >>> On Mar 26, 2016, at 7:10 PM, Michael <keybou...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hmm ... what kind of drive do I put in this laptop? >>> >>> iBook G4, 15 inch ... 1 GB memory. >>> >>> (I use it primarily for a second screen, and playing dos games in QEMU). >>> >>> On 2016-03-26, at 7:08 PM, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Disk Warrior can work wonders, but you'd probably be better off getting a >>>> new drive for that $120, and reloading your Time Machine backup onto it. >>>> When you start getting file system corruption, it's usually the fault of >>>> the disk (as I learned the hard way :O) >>>> -Carl >>>> >>>> >>>>> On Mar 26, 2016, at 6:30 PM, Michael <keybou...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> At $120, it's not worth that much :-). >>>>> >>>>> I'm wondering if I could get a reinstall from the genius bar. >>>>> >>>>> On 2016-03-26, at 4:33 PM, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> If you have disk warrior, boot from it and try to repair the drive. If >>>>>> you don't have it, it's really, really worth getting. >>>>>> >>>>>>> On Mar 26, 2016, at 3:59 PM, Michael <keybou...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I have an iBook G4, running 10.5.8. Today, it rebooted on me, at >>>>>>> "random". >>>>>>> >>>>>>> During startup, it complained about problems with the root file system, >>>>>>> and said that an fsck would be forced at next startup. So, I forced a >>>>>>> reboot from the login screen. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Naturally, it did not do the fsck. So, a reboot into single user mode. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Fsck -f tells me the following: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Checking Journaled HFS plus volume >>>>>>> Checking extents overflow file >>>>>>> Checking catalog file >>>>>>> Keys out of order (4, 704) >>>>>>> Rebuilding catalog B-tree >>>>>>> The volume could not be repaired >>>>>>> Exited with signal 8 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> What do I do at this point to recover? I have a full time machine >>>>>>> backup. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> --- >>>>>>> Entertaining minecraft videos >>>>>>> http://YouTube.com/keybounce >>>>>>> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> MacOSX-talk mailing list >>>>>>> MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com >>>>>>> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> --- >>>>> Entertaining minecraft videos >>>>> http://YouTube.com/keybounce >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> MacOSX-talk mailing list >>>>> MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com >>>>> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk >>>> >>> >>> --- >>> Entertaining minecraft videos >>> http://YouTube.com/keybounce >>> >> > > --- > Entertaining minecraft videos > http://YouTube.com/keybounce > --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
