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prusikJust not right now.
We just had a random power failure. Obviously, it didn't last very long if I'm writing this now. Powered up my G5, discovered that it was hanging. Went into verbose mode. I/O errors. Uh oh. Boot into single user mode. It can read the drive ok. fsck causes the computer to go nuts trying too repair it. The fan goes into overdrive.
Now, the funny thing is that I just started putting a back up strategy into place last month. I bought a Drobo that I can't yet hook up because of a shortage of power receptacles, a USB dock, and a couple 1TB drives. I've been cloning my existing 1TB drive onto the ones I bought for weeks now. That's the drive that has all my data. That's not the drive that has appeared to battle drive that has the errors is my start up drive. It pretty much holds only system files and applications. The plan was to delete enough stuff from it so that I could clone it to my external Firewire drive. I did the cleanup, But, of course, I hadn't gotten around to doing the cloning yet.
Well, I'd planned to upgrade to Leopard after I'd finished the video work I'm doing for a friend. (This is on the other drive and is backed up.) However, I figured I might as well do it now. I replaced the old drive with one of the 1TB drives was using for backup. The idea was to install Leopard on it. However, the Mac didn't recognize it. I didn't feel like checking to see if it was the drive or if the Mac didn't want to recognize the upper bay. (Also, the drive is unformatted.) So. I'm installing Leopard on the external firewire drive. That way, I have a functioning system while I figure out what's going on.
(Note: If you own an iPod, don't leave it plugged into the Mac, while you're doing this. The Mac will mount it while it's instaling Leopard and you won't have only music to listen to.)
So what am I using to blog this? The laptop that I say I don't need and never use (except to annotate PDFs and do Chinese handwriting recognition.)It, like the Mac, is 2004 tech. If I'm going to use it more regularly, I'm going to need something more reliable. (e.g. if I should get into Clarion [West]) *sigh*
ETA: Yeah. It was because the drive wasn't initialized. Did that. Now, I'm installing Leopard again on that drive.
Incidentally, I've been using a beta Text Input Panel called Inker to write this entry. It has some nifty features, but it's definitely beta. It crashed once during my post. Also. It tries to be helpfully moving itself where it thinks I want it. It's invariably wrong. It'd be better if it just stayed where I put it.
We just had a random power failure. Obviously, it didn't last very long if I'm writing this now. Powered up my G5, discovered that it was hanging. Went into verbose mode. I/O errors. Uh oh. Boot into single user mode. It can read the drive ok. fsck causes the computer to go nuts trying too repair it. The fan goes into overdrive.
Now, the funny thing is that I just started putting a back up strategy into place last month. I bought a Drobo that I can't yet hook up because of a shortage of power receptacles, a USB dock, and a couple 1TB drives. I've been cloning my existing 1TB drive onto the ones I bought for weeks now. That's the drive that has all my data. That's not the drive that has appeared to battle drive that has the errors is my start up drive. It pretty much holds only system files and applications. The plan was to delete enough stuff from it so that I could clone it to my external Firewire drive. I did the cleanup, But, of course, I hadn't gotten around to doing the cloning yet.
Well, I'd planned to upgrade to Leopard after I'd finished the video work I'm doing for a friend. (This is on the other drive and is backed up.) However, I figured I might as well do it now. I replaced the old drive with one of the 1TB drives was using for backup. The idea was to install Leopard on it. However, the Mac didn't recognize it. I didn't feel like checking to see if it was the drive or if the Mac didn't want to recognize the upper bay. (Also, the drive is unformatted.) So. I'm installing Leopard on the external firewire drive. That way, I have a functioning system while I figure out what's going on.
(Note: If you own an iPod, don't leave it plugged into the Mac, while you're doing this. The Mac will mount it while it's instaling Leopard and you won't have only music to listen to.)
So what am I using to blog this? The laptop that I say I don't need and never use (except to annotate PDFs and do Chinese handwriting recognition.)It, like the Mac, is 2004 tech. If I'm going to use it more regularly, I'm going to need something more reliable. (e.g. if I should get into Clarion [West]) *sigh*
ETA: Yeah. It was because the drive wasn't initialized. Did that. Now, I'm installing Leopard again on that drive.
Incidentally, I've been using a beta Text Input Panel called Inker to write this entry. It has some nifty features, but it's definitely beta. It crashed once during my post. Also. It tries to be helpfully moving itself where it thinks I want it. It's invariably wrong. It'd be better if it just stayed where I put it.
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Date: 2009-01-01 09:40 pm (UTC)(Edited because Sharon uses her livejournal so seldom I'd forgotten which one it is)
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