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Chuq Von Rospach

finally, progress!

Scott Dickerson

Doug,
Does this mean that you think you have solved the problems? it was the motherboard in the macpro?

I am about to bring on some more help in my office so sharing files and having more working space is about to become a top priority. I appreciate hearing about your struggles, as I doubt they'll send a tech to Homer, Alaska for free! But maybe they would send a new computer . . .

Do you share files at all or are you purely in this for storage/backup space?

Thanks,

Doug Plummer

Yes, the problem was a wonky motherboard. I just have another motherboard wonky in an entirely new fashion, but that nonetheless lets me connect to my sata box.

You're talking about networking, which is another bugaboo in my life. Allegedly, one could imagine a box such as this being available as a share on a network.

Regard storage and backup as different animals entirely. You need backup for the files you have in storage. I have three copies of everything, only one of which is connected to the computer.

Jeff Carlson

Glad to hear something is actually working, even though it's only 98% for now! And I especially like your daily photo for today. When I saw all those screws, my gut tightened until I read this post.

martin Doonan

This is the trouble with personal computers of any type - finding out what happened when things go wrong. what happened to self diagnostics? My car can tell you almost to the nut & bolt what's gone wrong, and then tells the mechanic what was happening when it did. Oh, for a computer that would tell me what's broken & how to fix it.

Eric Hancock

Wow -- congratulations. I'm glad you are making some progress. Even though I try not to get caught up in the computer/OS religious wars, I get upset when people have this kind of unacceptable trouble with a Mac.

Your troubles remind me of an issue I had way back when Apple released the first version of MacOS X. I had a computer that ran OS 9 just fine, but would crash within minutes of booting OS X, crashing so badly that the disk became un-bootable (if that is a word).

After many e-mails and phone calls, Apple wanted to replace the motherboard at my expense, but without knowing whether or not it would fix the problem. I finally convinced them to give me a just a replacement drive, and if that actually fixed the crashing, that I'd pay for the drive, etc...

As it turned out, replacing the drive did fix the problem; OS X ran fine on the old machine with the new drive. Hardware and software have an intimate relationship. Small, transient errors can cause catastrophic crashes, crashes that may not happen with different combinations of software.

As someone in the industry, I'm still shocked when large, complex systems of hardware and software function well; here are so many potential points of failure.

I certainly hope you are close to a final solution for your problems.

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