[iBook] endless spinning cursor

[Matthew Faulds]

Don't want to scare you but this sounds horribly familiar. Have you checked 
the SMART status of your HD? My 12" ibook had similar behaviour and the 
drive suddenly failed.

Matt



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From: "R. Hefner" <rshefner_uk at yahoo.com>
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Subject: [iBook] endless spinning cursor
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 21:10:34 -0500

Lately my iBook has been experiencing the endless spinning cursor problem 
and the only thing I can do to get it to stop is push the off button for a 
few secs and then reboot. I noticed this a few weeks ago when I had a disk 
mounted and was trying to access the info on the disk. Then this weekend I 
had the same problem when trying to access my external drive. It only seems 
to happen in these two instances. Does anyone know what causes this and what 
I should do? I was actually using the external drive to backup all my mp3s 
etc. so I can upgrade from Jaguar (10.2.8) to Panther. Might this upgrade 
fix my problem if I do a clean install? BTW, I have run Disk Utility on both 
my drives and no problems found.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Ronda






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