PowerBook G4 12" 867MHz/40GB HD/640MB RAM, about 3 years old.
Mac OS X 10.4.6
Started acting up...
* interface would stop responding
* beachball would spin
* hard disk would spin every second in a pulse-like fashion
Resetting PRAM and/or repairing disk permissions and/or cleaning caches and/or fsck seemed to help before. This was happening before I updated from 10.3.9 to 10.4.6 last week.
Well, I'm running fsck -f in single user mode and it's reporting "IOATAController device blocking bus". It was trying to remove swap files.
I need an updated hardware diagnostics CD (launches into open firmware), so I can't say what it would tell me.
Any other suggestions before I consider wiping the drive clean or replacing it?
Mac OS X 10.4.6
Started acting up...
* interface would stop responding
* beachball would spin
* hard disk would spin every second in a pulse-like fashion
Resetting PRAM and/or repairing disk permissions and/or cleaning caches and/or fsck seemed to help before. This was happening before I updated from 10.3.9 to 10.4.6 last week.
Well, I'm running fsck -f in single user mode and it's reporting "IOATAController device blocking bus". It was trying to remove swap files.
I need an updated hardware diagnostics CD (launches into open firmware), so I can't say what it would tell me.
Any other suggestions before I consider wiping the drive clean or replacing it?
