[iBook] endless spinning cursor

[Matthew Faulds]

As far as I'm aware you can only check the SMART status of an internal drive 
in os x at present. Try http://homepage.mac.com/julianmayer/ for 
SMARTreporter which is what I use to keep an eye on things these days.

RAM might be a little sparse for doing anything too intensive but shouldn't 
cause this level of problem.

Matt

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Hi Matt and everyone,

Thanks for the replys. I am a little scared now because I have also been 
having kernal panics a lot when my modem disconnects. What exactly is drive 
failure? Is it operable? I know these are silly questions but this computer 
has not given me any probelms for almost 3 years now.

How do you check SMART status? I am running 10.2.8 so this is not built into 
Disk Utility like it is in Panther, I think. Also, can you check SMART 
status on ANY drive or does it have to be a certain drive to be SMART 
checkable?

If it matters, my iBook is a 12" 700MHz with 384mb RAM. The drive is a 30gb 
Ultra ATA.  This iBook came on the scene in May 2002.

Thanks again!
Ronda

Matthew Faulds <mattfaulds at hotmail.com> wrote:
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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