Need help with a disk problem

2010-08-26 Thread John Ruschmeyer
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

Re: Need help with a disk problem

2010-08-26 Thread Dan
At 12:35 PM -0400 8/26/2010, John Ruschmeyer wrote: PowerBook G3 (Pismo, 500mhz, 1GB RAM) HD size? free space? running under 10.4 for some time. 10 point 4 point what? Fully updated or ? The first problem appeared during an update for Office 2004. Like most installers, it popped up a

Re: Need help with a disk problem

2010-08-26 Thread jruschme
On Aug 26, 1:06 pm, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 12:35 PM -0400 8/26/2010, John Ruschmeyer wrote: PowerBook G3 (Pismo, 500mhz, 1GB RAM) HD size?  free space? 40GB drive (shows up as 36.7GB), 9 GB free running under 10.4 for some time. 10 point 4 point what?  Fully updated or ?

Re: Need help with a disk problem

2010-08-26 Thread Gus
Not sure on the laptops, but on the power macs one place to look for your S.M.A.R.T. Status is under the apple menu, about this mac, more info, the HARDWARE section, ATA, clicking the drive on the right side of the window. the S.M.A.R.T. status will be displayed there. Good Luck Gus. On Aug

Re: Need help with a disk problem

2010-08-26 Thread jruschme
Well, it turns out to be simpler than I thought... Based on the advice I received, I started poking around with the Console app and found the following: 2010-08-26 19:27:52.100 SoftwareUpdateCheck[626] -[NSCFString substringFromIndex:] called with out-of-bounds index. For apps linked on Tiger