Hi all I have a kind of ironic problem here. Hopefully one of you has seen this before.
I recently replaced two 40 GB drives in my B&W G3 with a 160 GB Western Digital (this only gives 127 GB of useable space, humph -30 GB! Not much better than adding another 40 GB drive really, but this is not the problem). I installed 10.3 and updated to the latest stuff. Since then we have had a 'Disk Is Full Alert' at random intervals. Usually when things have been left running for a while. However, we always did this anyway. It was doing this that proved osx was so tough to me. It is suggesting that I should Force Quit one of the running App's as swap-space has run out, I haven't so far and the computer has carried on fine if I just close the alert. I cant find too much reference to this at macosxhints or similar, aside from references to memory leaks in Safari some time ago. I think we've seen it 4 or 5 times now. A little background: There was a prob with the initial osx install. When it said it was loading the login window I would instead be presented with a BSD login prompt! I could neither login as root or as the only user. Very nice font-smoothing compared to MS-DOS though;) So I Installed again. Great. Now I sometimes get this funny little alert, given the amount of unused space I now have, I cant help but grin. Oh yes, and there was a Kernel Panic at first boot too. Aside from all of this everything *is* fine and it even runs a little faster now. OSX has broken the rule for me that updating operating systems makes older computers run slower. 10.2 to 10.3 for us felt like a hardware upgrade:) My gut feel is there is something wrong with the new drive. Someone prove me wrong, please. Thanks for reading. Paul
