[Moved to GB]: invalid key length

swordfishswordfish
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
Can anyone give me some advice here? I recently put a second hard drive and upgraded my memory in my G4. When I restarted, I got a message saying Keys 4, 278 out of order, but it still ran. About a week later, I got error messages saying Invalid Key Length 4, 788 and the system folder wouldn't show up. Disk Aid won't fix whatever is going on. Any ideas as to what this means, what caused it, and how to fix it? Any feedback greatly appreciated.



[ 02-10-2003: Message edited by: murbot ]</p>

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  • Reply 1 of 3
    madmax559madmax559 Posts: 596member
    backtrack....

    its sounds like a corrupt fs/hash entry but...



    remove the ram first just to be sure its

    not a bad stick



    see if error persists...

    chck 2nd hdd or remove that & make sure primary works..



    dumb q....are the hdd's jumpered properly ?

    aka master slave or on diff ide channels ?
  • Reply 2 of 3
    swordfishswordfish Posts: 11member
    madmax559- Thanks for the suggestions. I checked the memory-- all is well; it now has 1.5 running fine. I partitioned the second drive and loaded OS 9.2 (which I usually run) in one partition and OSX in the other. It starts up fine with either of these if I unplug the master drive (original drive). If I unplug the new drive, the computer won't start and the old drive (primary) won't mount. Any ideas? You mentioned a corrupt fs/hash entry as a possibility. What is that? Thanks for the reply.
  • Reply 3 of 3
    murbotmurbot Posts: 5,262member
    Moving this into the Genius Bar...
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