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The Disaster-Free Upgrade to Mac OS X -- Part 2 | |
| Subject: | Great article... but one unexpected problem | |
| Date: | 2001-05-15 04:54:24 | |
| From: | nomad7674 | |
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Response to: Great article... but one unexpected problem
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| Yup, a FireWire drive (a generic one bought from MacWarehouse last year). There have been some good ideas from www.MacFixIt.com's boards on a fix, too, so I may get beyond it. Current front-runner diagnosis is that I have a file with an illegal character in it. (Allegedly, Alladin installs a file which causes problems.) | ||
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Great article... but one unexpected problem
2001-05-15 07:31:31 Derrick Story |
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Sounds like the problem is more with the file than the drive ... If you try to copy the same info to another "regular" System 9 Mac, do you still have the same problem? -
Great article... but one unexpected problem
2001-05-16 12:10:22 nomad7674 [View]
Unfortunately, I only have one FireWire Mac in the house to work with. It still occurs if I try, however, to boot off of the 9 System folder on my X partition or if I try to boot off a 9 System Folder on the second partition (System 9.1 only).
I am starting to suspect the problem is the hardware, as the hangs also occur when launching a very large file/process. I am wondering if either:
1. The FireWire drive is faulty. Maybe I need to install new drivers to it.
2. My Firmware is not at the right level. I thought I had upgraded prior to my X install, but I am now wondering if I used the right ones.
Thanks again.
