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Umar,<div><br></div><div>In about 2 years of using and suggesting the OF resets, I am not aware of them creating any new problems. The January 09 Archive of the G4 list has a post you may find interesting.</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="5" color="#4f2388" style="font: 16.0px Times; color: #4f2388"><a href="http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/g4/2009-January/018357.html"><u>[G4] Re: Fixed, at last </u></a></font><font face="Times" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times"> <i>RELNGSON at aol.com</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><i><br></i></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; ">If you have a spare drive, you might try doing a clean install of 10.4.11 on it and use that installation to troubleshoot the SATA drive problem. </span></i></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Do you use the Chron utilities? They run early in the morning if you leave the computer on overnight. Otherwise, MacJanitor (and there are others) does a good job of keeping them current. I have seen MacJanitor clear up some weird problems, too. On my machines, at the 1st sign of trouble I do the OF Resets and run MacJ. That seems to keep them running pretty trouble free. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Dan</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><i><br></i></span></font></div><div><div>On Feb 23, 2009, at 2:49 AM, Umar Stone wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><div><div>On 23/02/2009, at 1:52 AM, CDT wrote:</div>Thanks Dan T, I'm not too sure but the SATA won't open since I loaded upgrade 10.4.11 on to it, and then issued the Open Firmware command fixed the select/crash problem on the Master drive, which run's with 10.4.10</div><div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div>snip</div></body></html>