keys out of order = fatal error

[Noele Stollmack]

My TI 800 started acting like a PC with Windows 98 a few months ago.
Applications started to hang and lose stability. Repairing permissions
always hung about 3/4 of the way through. I ran FSCK and received the "keys
out of order" message. When I spoke with a genius who just happened to be in
the room, he stated that the "keys out of order" message indicates a fatal
hardware error, and my 5 month old hard drive should be replaced before it
died. According to the genius, Apple had a bad run of drives and they were
replacing them without question when keys where out of order.

I would not bother with Disk Warrior or any other diagnostic tools - talk to
Apple.

Noele