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hadocon · Nov 14, 2003, 10:14 PM

I just installed Panther on the slave 120GB HDD on my girlfriends Quicksilver DP800. After the install I changed the jumpers so that the 120 would be the new master and the original 80GB drive would be the slave. When I first rebooted I kept getting kernel panics saying that I did not have the right kernel for my unknown system (to paraphrase) - I at least have the machine booting off the 120GB drive now, but the slave 80GB drive is not mounting at all. When I use Disk Utility I can see that the computer knows that the slave is there, and I even have the option to mount it - when I click the mount button nothing happens. No beachball or anything.

When I try to "Repair Disk" I get this:

Repairing disk for �Bebblebrox�
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Volume check failed.

Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit (-9972)

Repair attempted on 1 volume
0 HFS volumes repaired
1 volume could not be repaired

When I tried to install Panther on the original 80GB drive the installer would not let me. I just got an error message saying that the installation could not be performed. I never installed the most recent HD update - I guess I'll try that now...

My girlfriend is going to get pretty pissed if I can't figure this out. Does anyone have any Ideas?

dialo · Nov 14, 2003, 10:42 PM

Did you try changing them back to see if they work in their original config?

CharlesS · Nov 15, 2003, 04:00 AM

DiskWarrior would probably be a better bet than Drive10. It is by far the most reliable disk utility at fixing nasty problems that nothing else can fix.

hadocon · Nov 15, 2003, 10:12 AM

Originally posted by dialo:
Did you try changing them back to see if they work in their original config?

Yes, I tried changing the DIP switches back to how they were but then all I received were Kernel panics.

dialo · Nov 15, 2003, 01:13 PM

Originally posted by hadocon:
Yes, I tried changing the DIP switches back to how they were but then all I received were Kernel panics.

That's rough. I have disk warrior, it seems to do the job and most folks swear by it, so that might be the best route.

hadocon · Nov 15, 2003, 01:23 PM

Originally posted by dialo:
That's rough. I have disk warrior, it seems to do the job and most folks swear by it, so that might be the best route.

I just bought it and I am running it now... Is it supposed to take a while? I have been running it for about 45 minutes now and it is still working on Rebuilding directory... Step 6: Overlapped files detected: 18, and the progress bar is only about halfway filled.

I looked in the manual, but there is no statement as to how long operations take.

wataru · Nov 15, 2003, 01:31 PM

Drive 10 can take quite a while to fix directory problems, so I wouldn't worry about it.

CharlesS · Nov 15, 2003, 02:04 PM

Originally posted by hadocon:
I just bought it and I am running it now... Is it supposed to take a while? I have been running it for about 45 minutes now and it is still working on Rebuilding directory... Step 6: Overlapped files detected: 18, and the progress bar is only about halfway filled.

I looked in the manual, but there is no statement as to how long operations take.

It depends on how screwed up your drive is. If it's fairly healthy, it won't take long, but if it needs a lot of work, it may run for a while.

For the latter case, make sure you do a Preview of the disk before you replace the directory - that way you can make sure all your important files will still be intact on the new directory.