[Don Pickett]

I've got a Pismo with some problems:

I just upgraded the processor to the Bluechip 900 MHz upgrade. Upon restart, everything was moving S L O W, and the drive was making a regular "chunking" noise – seven times in a row, then silence, then the chunking again, on and on and on. It eventually stopped amd 10.3.3 booted. Things ran well for about twenty minutes, and then I get a kernel panic. I booted up with Tech Tool Pro, which found many, many problems – it took it about an hour and a half to fix them all.

I decided to reformat the drive and re-install. 9.2.2 installed fine, but 10.3 wouldn't install. The installer would get about half way through and tell me it encountered errors, asking me to restart. I did this a few times, then rebooted into 9.2.2 and found a hard drive littered with files. There were multiple copies of all the usual OS X files and folders: three Applications files, three Library files, etc. I nuked them and was able to install 10.2, but it also too forever to install.

Now, with it running, the Finder constantly crashes and attempting to use commands in the Terminal gives me a segmentation fault. I did get a "diskutil," which gave me this:

Code:
diskutil info disk0
   Device Node:        /dev/disk0
   Device Identifier:  disk0
   Mount Point:        
   Volume Name:        

   File System:        
   Partition Type:     Apple_partition_scheme
   Media Type:         Generic
   Protocol:           ATA

   Total Size:         11.2 GB
   Free Space:         0.0 B

   Read Only:          No
   Ejectable:          No

Notice it says there's no free space, when in fact there's over 9 gigs.

Does this sound like what happens when a drive dies?

[rag on a muffin]

sounds like directories problems to me. when the drive dies, it ususally wont show up, or show up as jibberish.

[SSharon]

Sounds like the next step is to zero the drive and make sure its not a physical problem with it.

[Don Pickett]

Originally posted by SSharon:
Sounds like the next step is to zero the drive and make sure its not a physical problem with it.

Would this make a big difference? I didn't zero it last time.

[wei]

Originally posted by Don Pickett:
Would this make a big difference? I didn't zero it last time.

you should give it a try. atlease you'll know is that a physical damage. my last drive die on first section bad sector.

[Don Pickett]

Originally posted by wei:
you should give it a try. atlease you'll know is that a physical damage. my last drive die on first section bad sector.

I will try it after work today.

Thank God for iPods.

[swamibooba]

the easiest way to tell if your hard drive is physically kicking the bucket is if it starts making funny clicking sounds, after which the system freezes up.

about a couple of days after you start hearing that, you won't be able to boot up. the next thing you do, if you didn't back up, is panic.

[wunderkind]

Time to run DiskWarrior on your disk.

[Don Pickett]

Originally posted by wunderkind:
Time to run DiskWarrior on your disk.

Don't got it. Do have Tech Tool Pro.

[Don Pickett]

Did a successful low level format, tried to install 10.3, which errored out. Tried to install 10.2, which I successfully installed last night, and it went through the first CD, rebooted for the second CD, and the machine froze with a horizontal band of white, vertical lines across the screen.

Successfully installed 9.2.2, which is working.

I got no idea.