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“unexpected end of file” on firewire drive — how to fix??
I have a brand new 300 gig firewire drive on my OS9 Mac. WHen I run norton disk doctor, it can’t complete the check and says “unexpected end of file” — on an empty, freshly formatted, brand new drive! Has anyone else encountered this or able to offer a solution?
I was only able to fill up the drive 66 percent full and then it refused to record more, started dropping frames consistently, and other irritants.
-John
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Sounds like you need to reformat the drive. Everyone needs to erase the drive between major projects, unfortunately, not many do. And then problems like this happen.
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As I stated in my original post, the drive is “freshly formatted” Mac Extended.
regards
-John
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that is strange, and sorry, I have no idea what the problem might be … still, what made you run disk doctor on a completely blank drive?
FWIW I seem to remember that Norton Disk Doctor was the cause of many a problem back in the dark days of OS 9.What happens when you run Apple Disk First Aid … do you get the same error?
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[John] “I have a brand new 300 gig firewire drive on my OS9 Mac”
What vintage/model “OS9 Mac?” Older machines’ logic board ATA bus will not recognize and can’t use drive space above a certain value, around 128GB formatted (137 GB unformatted). This is a hardware, not an OS limitation. If this is the case, you may need to install an IDE/ATA-6 PCI card to access the drive’s full capacity and avoid data corruption.
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This is a G4 dual 500 running OS 9.2.2. I have two other 200 gig drives also from Rocstor and I never had this problem, it was only when I went to 300 gig, and come to think of it, once I went a little bit over 200 gig on the 300 gig drive, this is when the drive started acting up! Over 200 gig I can drag files into the drive, but I can’t record directly to the drive, it gives me I/O errors and dropped frames.
thanx
-John
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