Darth Noor Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 I successfully installed JaS 10.4.8 + ppf1 on a spare WD400 40 gig disk, using an ASUS P5VD1-X motherboard. Everything works fine and I even got some sound to work. I was trying to move to a larger spare disks, a WD1600 160Gig drive. When I try to install on this disk, the installer dies just after running the Base system 1. It dies at the beginining of installing Essential 1.... and I get a window prompting me to try again... The error in the log show some funky read/write error on the disk. I also tried using SuperSuper to copy my 40gig onto my 160gig but not matter what I do, I cannot get the larger disk to boot up. I tried all possible ways of creating a partition and set the partition as active etc.. as far as I can tell, both drives and content look indentical. Still, booting from the 160g disk does not work and I just end up with a black screen.. it never even starts. Also, when I try to run Superduper a second time in a row to check that all the content of the 40gig was copied onto the 160gig, it complains about some i/o errors on the 160gig disk. All of this points to the disk being bad, BUT, the disk checked out and runs fine with XP etc.. If I run Disk Utility on it, just after mirroring the content of the 40gig disk onto it using superdupper (or rsync, or ditto), I get a complaint that the disk is corruped and thet the BT tree is messed up, and cannot be repaired. Does anyone know if there is a problem with these larger drives and the ATA driver that comes with JaS 10.4.8? Any help would be very appreciated... I tried for several evenings now and I am bummed to not be able to run OSX on my larger disk... :-( Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44628-jas-1048-some-disks-work-some-dont/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaldMeister Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Well, first of all, is the 160 gb a SATA drive? And maybe you could/should check/rebuild the partition table with Partition Table Docter (Also on Hiren's Boot CD). This fixed all my problems when i couldn't install os x due a HDD error. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44628-jas-1048-some-disks-work-some-dont/#findComment-319597 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Noor Posted March 9, 2007 Author Share Posted March 9, 2007 Well, first of all, is the 160 gb a SATA drive?And maybe you could/should check/rebuild the partition table with Partition Table Docter (Also on Hiren's Boot CD). This fixed all my problems when i couldn't install os x due a HDD error. It is a 160Gig Western Digital IDE disk. I am still baffled as to what the heck is different about this disk. I guess that it could be a hardware problem with the disk itself but I doudt it because it has functioned perfectly well for the past few months. The booting problem aside, the fact that running Superdupper twice in a row to copy the content of the working OSX installation onto this disk fails is very strange. That should just not happen, unless Superdupper has some issues... but I have tried rsync too from the command line and I have the same problem. Some files just cannot be copied onto the larger disk. It is really as if this disk is somehow not working well with the ATA driver on the JaS 10.4.8 distro. I will have to try another disk I suppose but I wonder if anyone else has had this type of weird i/o problems on larger IDE disks? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44628-jas-1048-some-disks-work-some-dont/#findComment-320082 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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