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-----Original Message-----
From: vjs [mailto:vjs@mail.ndirect.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, November 19, 1998 3:50 PM
To: Pablo Silva-Escuela Nacional de Musica, UNAM
Cc: csound@maths.ex.ac.uk
Subject: Re: (off topic) Hard drive death and other MacOS 8.1 conundrums


lots of reports of strange hard drive deaths using 8.5

8.1 is supposed to be completely stable

the first thing to try is updating the driver on your hard disk. If your
drive(s) is(are) Apple-supported, Drive Setup 1.5 will do this,
otherwise
you will need to get hold of Charismac Anubis 3.0 or the latest version
of
FWB HDT (I prefer the former)

the OS8.1 installer is supposed to update your drive automatically, but
sometimes it doesn't; if the drive is not Apple-supported, it can't but
doesn't always tell you about it. Also it won't necessarily update all
the
drives attached to your machine, sometimes only the boot drive. There
may
also be issues with drives attached to ultra-SCSI cards.

if all this does not work, it could be an old system utility going
crazy.

hope this helps
good luck

vjs


by the way, please DO NOT use HFS+, it is still highly suspect. It would
be
safer to partition drives or use Shrinkwrap disk images to store lots of
little files.


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>Hello Csounders:
>
>An urgent question...
>
>After experiencing my second catastrophic hard drive crash in a month
>yesterday night, I was wondering whether anyone here has had any
trouble
>like this after upgrading to System 8.1?? The ironic part of this last
>crash was that I lost all my data and installs 10 minutes after
verifying
>the integrity of my drive (old HFS) with Apple's First Aid utility (8.1
>too, of course...) Is there any problem with System 8.1 that people are
>aware of in regards to this? Something seems to be messing around
>seriously with the catalog and Btree files.
>
>And, does anyone here know if it is possible to install copy protection
>(for instance Max 3.5.8, system 8 disk) on the new HFS+ formatted
drives
>safely??
>
>Thanks for the feedback
>
>Pablo Silva