Harddrive Failures Log
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Sep 25
Hard drives wouldn't mount OR computer wouldn't start up with all 5 drives on. I turned off the opaque drives and lef the 3 transparent ones on, after which the computer started up completely.
August 27
FCP Renders failed to show up again on the dual Gig machine. When taken over to the dual 500mhz machine, it showed up, then showed up again on the 12" Powerbook.
August 20
Titanium Drive in enclosure (60Gig):
Background story - I tried to open a MS Word Doc that was located on the disk. It gave me an error because I needed to be under OS X to read the doc, and I was under OS 9 (still not sure why that is). It wouldn't let me eject the disk after that because it believed that the doc was open even though there were no applications open except for Finder - there were no windows open in Finder either. So I had to do a soft reboot, and was able to eject it afterwards. But when I ejected it, and plugged it into the Lab Mac, it couldn't recognize the format of the disk, leading me to believe that the Header info was corrupted, like the other disks that have failed recently.
Earl and Interview HD - Lost its connection while copying files from Mac HD to Captures. Restarted the drive and it came back up. Minor problem.
August 18
Tech Ed 200GB (renamed "Captures" on the label) Norton reported: "Major error was found in the Volume Header Block. 1. The signature is incorrect. The Volumne Header Block and its Alternative store important information about your HSF Plus disk, such as the fnumber of files and olders on the disk. (6,1,1). 2. "The format version is incorrect." 3. "The last-mounted version is invalid." (6,1,36) 4. The allocation block size is incorrect. (6,1,7)
Goldman HD H