Ok, so I had finally gotten my G4 completely configured the way I wanted it... Unfortunately, a few days ago, it started to complain about the main drive (OS drive) having a FAILING S.M.A.R.T. status... This first failure was not a surprise to me considering how noisy the bearings were getting in it....
BUT, I replaced that bad one with a 160GB Western IDE. I tried restoring my Time Machine backups to it, but none of the daily backups would boot up at all...
So I got tired of messing with that, and bit the bullet, I am trying to re install again... But then, I get yet another FAILING status on the drive I just put in there... It just seems like this may not be true because AFAIK the drive is perfectly fine.
What should I do? With it being a Mac and all, it locks out all utilities to a failing drive... And I dont think I will be able to format it on Fedora to the correct filesystem and have it work because I would imagine it hinders you from installing on a bad drive....
Considering I doubt that my spares are crap, the computer is either killing them when trying to format them, or it is reading a false positive...
Edited by raidmaxGuy - 10/26/12 at 2:44pm
BUT, I replaced that bad one with a 160GB Western IDE. I tried restoring my Time Machine backups to it, but none of the daily backups would boot up at all...
So I got tired of messing with that, and bit the bullet, I am trying to re install again... But then, I get yet another FAILING status on the drive I just put in there... It just seems like this may not be true because AFAIK the drive is perfectly fine.
What should I do? With it being a Mac and all, it locks out all utilities to a failing drive... And I dont think I will be able to format it on Fedora to the correct filesystem and have it work because I would imagine it hinders you from installing on a bad drive....
Considering I doubt that my spares are crap, the computer is either killing them when trying to format them, or it is reading a false positive...
Edited by raidmaxGuy - 10/26/12 at 2:44pm
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