Dead Hard-drive?

[Mussadique Suleiman]

Dear Rickard,

Thanks for your suggestions. I never knew that hard drive surfaces were
used in such an orderly manner. 
I'll try a surface scan overnight and see if it is a damaged drive.
Thanks for taking the time to look at my e-mail.

Regards,
Mussadique

On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 18:31, rid@wgi.su.se wrote:
> If you consistently put Mac OS on the drive before installing YDL, it 
> might be that the partition(s) used by YDL occupies an area with some 
> damage that is not visible to the Mac OS, which resides on its own 
> partition. This would mean that the drive is indeed bad. If there is a 
> utility that can test the drive on a lower level (disregarding partitioning 
> and file sytems) this could possibly identify the nature of the problem.
> 
> Regards
> /Rickard
> 
> On 10 Sep 2002 at 15:12, Mussadique Suleiman wrote:
> 
> > Dear All,
> > 
> > Thanks for reading this e-mail,
> > 
> > I have a Powerbook G3 (Pismo) and I was running YDL 2.2 on it when one
> > day it would boot up saying that there were errors on the hard disk and
> > that I had to fsck it manually. So I did - after a whole day of
> > fsck-ing, the thing decided to boot up so I quickly got all the
> > important files out through FTP onto another workstation. 
> > 
> > Then, I proceeded to install YDL 2.3 (a chance to upgrade).
> > The MacOS 9 install went fine, then the YDL 2.3 install would:
> > 
> > 1) Hang when formatting the drive
> > - I am aware of the bug in the installer - this is not the case because
> > I defined the partitions without deleting any.
> > 	
> > 2) Format completes (too quickly) and installs of packages would hang
> > 	
> > So, I tried reinstalling YDL 2.2 instead and it would refuse to boot
> > giving a kernel panic about accessing a bad area.
> > 
> > Out of curiosity, I booted MacOS 9 and it was fine.
> > 
> > Could it be that MacOS 9 installed fine because it does not care if the
> > hard drive is on it's death bed? Is the install problem with YDL 2.2
> > caused by an almost dead drive? ( It installed extremely smoothly when I
> > first installed it)
> > 
> > Anyone with any ideas? I would appreciate if anyone knows what is going
> > on. I dont want to buy a new hard-drive unless my current one is truly
> > dead.
> > 
> > Thanks for taking the time to read this,
> > 
> > Mussadique 
> > 
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