[Ham-Mac] Blue Screen iMac

[Chris Smolinski]

>Well as someone who works at Apple. I am not sure I agree with the 
>Chris's comments.  (Perhaps Chris has had a rough day?) Actually 
>it's called Disk Utility now in OS X with the feature called First 
>Aid.  It's designed to correct minor problem in directory structure, 
>fixes permissions, Enables/Disables journaling, Formats disks, 
>creates virtual disk DMG file, creates mirror and stripes and 
>more......
>
>So you see it wasn't intended to be a heavy duty, need a specialist, 
>perhaps some surgery utility.  Why the feature is call First Aid.

Yes, it has been a bit of a rough day in fact. Perhaps I was a little 
harsh in my comments (although to be truthful I've rarely had much 
success using it, maybe I've always been able to mangle the HD too 
severely)

>I think if you have one of these UPS's and run current Mac OS X with 
>HFS journalling on you may never need such a such a Emergency tool 
>as Disk Warrior.
>
>Preventive medicine is much better than all others.

I think your USP comments are good advice. I've been lucky enough to 
survive quite a few power outages without any drive problems, but I 
might be pushing my luck. Maybe it's not too late to ask Santa ;-)

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Chris Smolinski
Black Cat Systems
http://www.blackcatsystems.com