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Loss of ability to write to the hard drive
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Drakino
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Jan 23, 2004, 12:49 AM
 
Anyone seen an issue where the system looses the ability to write to the hard drive? I had this problem a few times a while back on my Powerbook, but thought the reinstall of 10.3 fixed it. Seems it didn't, twice today I have had to reboot due to it.

Every time it happens, no program, including the system, can write to the hard drive. If I issue a restart in the terminal, the system restarts and comes back fine. But, if I didn't have terminal open ahead of time, I can't restart cleanly.

It's been unpredictable, as sometimes I can pull 14 days uptime, but yet today, I couldn't even pull 8 hours of uptime when it happened the second time. Disk space free has been between 6-15GB when it happens, so thats not the issue.

Not sure what hardware component could cause this failure.
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Jan 23, 2004, 01:34 AM
 
Have you tried running Repair Permissions?

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Drakino  (op)
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Jan 23, 2004, 04:02 AM
 
Ran that after the second time today, and it fixed a few minor things. I'm going to leave the system on again tonight and see if it happens again. I wish I could catch it when it exactly happens, but it's hard to tell.
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