Which is hosed?
Ok, I have been having some trouble with my Powerbook Titanium:
1ghz // 1g RAM // Tiger 10.4.x (latest)
A bit ago, it started hanging up frequently. Any task could bring up the beachball. I re-installed the OS after writing zeros to disk which i do every 6 months or so. I tend to create/download/delete large files regularly (design/music/video work). So, after reinstall, everything seems fine... for a while.
Now it was doing it again -- hanging up on anything I did. This time I tried some things before wiping:
Here are some notes:
........................
BOOT to Tiger Install Disk
REPAIR DISK:
couldn't unmount disks (2 partitions)
attempted REPAIR DISK again:
working, but on the main partition:
Keys out of order
rebuilding catalog B tree
Volume could not be repaired
ERROR: The underlying task reported failure on exit
But other partition was fine and I hadn't used it in anyway, SO:
booted to Tiger disc. Installed OSX on second partition
Still troubles everywhere, cant boot into either partition now
Disk Warrior disc wont boot up
LATEST REPAIR DISK:
invalid sibling link
Volume check failed
Reset PMU
Tried OPEN FIRMWARE:
reset-nvram
set-defaults
reset-all
TRIED boot in SAFE MODE:
never gets past grey apple and spinning
never says Safe Mode
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
So, I finally just wipe // write zeros // reinstall
And again, things seem back to normal. I wonder if I have some serious Drive trouble and it doesn't notice it until I start to really use it and write/read/delete more files where it has to use those bad blocks.
Now I am trying to run Drive Genius (SCAN) on the hard drive (no partitions) from my desktop machine with the Powerbook in Target Disk Mode. It has been running for almost a day with 540,000 of 116,000,000 read and 5 blocks bad. The progress bar looks like it could take a month at this rate.
Any Ideas? I think the HD is hosed. After 4 years of heavy use, it would make sense. But could it be Bad RAM or Logic Board or something?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
* joesepi
1ghz // 1g RAM // Tiger 10.4.x (latest)
A bit ago, it started hanging up frequently. Any task could bring up the beachball. I re-installed the OS after writing zeros to disk which i do every 6 months or so. I tend to create/download/delete large files regularly (design/music/video work). So, after reinstall, everything seems fine... for a while.
Now it was doing it again -- hanging up on anything I did. This time I tried some things before wiping:
Here are some notes:
........................
BOOT to Tiger Install Disk
REPAIR DISK:
couldn't unmount disks (2 partitions)
attempted REPAIR DISK again:
working, but on the main partition:
Keys out of order
rebuilding catalog B tree
Volume could not be repaired
ERROR: The underlying task reported failure on exit
But other partition was fine and I hadn't used it in anyway, SO:
booted to Tiger disc. Installed OSX on second partition
Still troubles everywhere, cant boot into either partition now
Disk Warrior disc wont boot up
LATEST REPAIR DISK:
invalid sibling link
Volume check failed
Reset PMU
Tried OPEN FIRMWARE:
reset-nvram
set-defaults
reset-all
TRIED boot in SAFE MODE:
never gets past grey apple and spinning
never says Safe Mode
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
So, I finally just wipe // write zeros // reinstall
And again, things seem back to normal. I wonder if I have some serious Drive trouble and it doesn't notice it until I start to really use it and write/read/delete more files where it has to use those bad blocks.
Now I am trying to run Drive Genius (SCAN) on the hard drive (no partitions) from my desktop machine with the Powerbook in Target Disk Mode. It has been running for almost a day with 540,000 of 116,000,000 read and 5 blocks bad. The progress bar looks like it could take a month at this rate.
Any Ideas? I think the HD is hosed. After 4 years of heavy use, it would make sense. But could it be Bad RAM or Logic Board or something?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
* joesepi
Comments
DiskUtility: Smart Status>> Verified
DiskWarrior: hardware diagnostics >> smart diag indicate drive is functioning normally
(app on computer, not on boot disc. -- I dont know why it wont boot to the disc now, it used to??)
booted to Tiger disc >> Disk Utility >> >> Repair Disk >> "Volume appears to be OK"
Will try AHT at home tonight, but in the meantime if anyone else has any suggestions/ideas, I am all ears.