[X4U] [Ti] hard drive for 17" powerbook

[Simon Forster]

On 10 Feb 2006, at 00:15, alexandre wrote:

> i did a little googling on hd failure symptoms (see above) and i  
> seem to have them. running disk utility brings up nothing. smart  
> reporter brings up nothing. booting in single user mode and running  
> fsck brings up nothing. yet the computer crashes severely: force- 
> quit doesn't work, i can only force re-boot. and then the computer  
> tells me it can't find the start up system and disk utility can't  
> the hd either…
>
> and 2 hours later, everything is up and running again… strange.
>
> should i still change my hd?!

IMHO, yes. I had exactly the same symptoms with my PowerBook 12".  
It'd run fine for a while then not restart. Leave for a couple of  
hours, it'd restart. Did this a couple of times then was fine for a  
couple of weeks. I made sure that the nightly backup was running OK  
and then, after a heavy days work. Boom. Left for a couple of hours,  
still wouldn't restart. Happily, after a rest overnight, it rebooted.  
I did a full backup and sent the machine off for repair as I realised  
that loosing even a days work could be a real bummer if it was the  
wrong days work.

FYI, I used to boot the machine in target disk mode a lot and use it  
as my home directory on a desktop machine. Now I have a little LaCie  
portable firewire drive which does the same task - it Velcros to the  
back of my PowerBook when I need to travel. And yes, the LaCie drive  
is backed up every night at 10:00 pm, assuming it's plugged into the  
desktop machine.

Simon Forster
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