[G4] Hard Drive Issues after installing Sonnet Encore 1.2Gig

Robert Hazelrigg robzilla at earthlink.net
Tue Apr 5 11:50:46 PDT 2005


Disk Warior, Not this time but last time is was no help. Micromat now 
suggests that I turn off any background reporting. Seems that this may 
cause the error. If it's not the cause at least I won't be warned about 
my impending hard drive failure... boy what a relief. <-- Sarcasm.

At 1:46 pm -0400 5/4/05, Robert Hazelrigg wrote:
> Okay so I got a 1.2Ghz Sonnet Encore Processor upgrade about a month 
> ago. Everything seemed to be working fine but then I started having 
> Harddrive errors. I figure my HD is going bad so I replace it and 
> trash the old one. Well, since then I've had to reinstall the system 
> twice due to multiple "Allocation Overlap (-694)" and "Invalid Extent 
> Pointer (-408)" issues.
>
> Has anyone heard of these errors. Micromat says it's a hard drive 
> issue but It just seems too wacky that the same types of errors are 
> occurring on both my old and new drives.

Have you tried running Disk Warrior?
-- 
Peter

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