Macintosh
Discusses all things Macintosh.
Contact: Richard Corzo. Meets the first Thursday of each month, 7:00
p.m. at the DACS Resource Center.
 News and Notes
In April, we started the meeting with Bill Manyin demonstrating
SMART Utility (http://www.volitans-software.com/Home.html). This
shareware utility gathers statistics supplied by your hard drives
as an early warning system for possible impending failures.
In the meantime I downloaded an iMovie project that I intended
to work with. As I opened iMovie HD, the application hung. It
seemed to affect the whole system. Along with Leopard I also
have Tiger and Mac OS 9 installed on the PowerMac G4. To help
answer one member's Mac OS 9 question I restarted the system
and held down the option key to give me a list of the bootable
drives. I selected Mac OS 9 and after I reached the desktop I
got an error message related to the video driver, which also
locked up that system. The only system still working at this
point was my Tiger partition. I booted into there, but was unable
to see either my Mac OS 9 or Leopard drives!
We adjourned the meeting and the next night I started up the
PowerMac again into Tiger. Again the Leopard and Mac OS 9 drives
were missing, but this time I waited a while. Apparently Tiger
had taken the other drives offline while it attempted repairs,
because those drives finally appeared on the desktop. I ran Disk
Utility and then DiskWarrior for good measure, and was then able
to boot into the other Mac partitions. In Mac OS 9 I got the
same error message upon reaching the desktop, but I answered
the other way. (I believe the dialog was one of those with an
OK and Cancel.) This time I was able to use the system without
hanging and then chose the Leopard startup disk from Control
Panel. Booting into Leopard I found everything back to normal
and so we should be in good shape for the next meeting. |