On Jan 19, 2005, at 2:20 AM, Carsten G Pedersen wrote:
I've run into quite a scary issue. Some defect RAM has managed to mess
up my internal SATA drive - and yes I know this happens all the time
and nothing special about that! Well the thing is that not only does
this lead to a kernel panic when booting on the drive - it seems that
whenever this drive is mounted on any Mac running 10.3.x it leads to
an instant kernel panic similar to this one:
The bigger issue is that there are all kinds of file system errors that
will cause the kernel to panic, and many of them are only fixable by
AlSoft's DiskWarrior, if at all.
I won't go into soapbox mode here, other than to say Apple really needs
to embark on a project of updating fsck; most other vendors have their
versions fix as many problems as they can conceive of and when they
trip over a new one update fsck to be able to fix that problem as well.
Apple, unfortunately, seems content to leave file system repair to
third parties.
In the mean time, the only thing you're probably going to be able to do
is reformat the drive from another OS, as as soon as (as you well know)
MacOS X sees the device it will try to mount it and will fall over
(sigh...)
William Kucharski
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