[Ham-Mac] Need some OSX help!

[Scott Galbraith]

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Roger, Tim, am suspecting same thing. Just finished formatting a small 7 gig drive and installing OS X 10.3.9 on it so that can install it and test.

Was getting the following error message when running fsck on the machine yesterday:

IOATAController device blocking bus

and fsck repeatedly failed. Posted about this on the Apple discussions site, but no one has come up with a meaning for the message. Was hoping that would lead to either the drive or the logic board controller as the culprit before I spent a lot of time doing what I have done (preping another drive.)

If the temp replacement drive works, I'll put the old one in my FW drive case, connect it to my MDD machine and see if I can recover anything from it with the tools I have there. Will also order a new 100 mb drive for my daughter if the temp works okay. The computer has no problem booting from a CD or from an external FW drive.

- Scott

At 7:42 AM -0400 7/10/05, Tim McLeod wrote:
>Scott,
>
>The Click Click sound is fairly typical of a damaged hard drive, and the
>unit is about the right age for HD failure.  I would more suspect damage in
>shipping than damage during the hinge replacement, but it's all pretty moot
>at this point.  You may be able to get it to start up for a few minutes to
>rescue data when the unit is COLD.  I've been lucky this way with a few
>iBooks and PowerBooks.
>
>- Tim