>Le mardi 30 avril 2002, à 11:30 , Herbie Gluender a écrit :
>
>> paranoid herbie adds:
>>
>> If Jonathan's conjecture turns out to be true, then --
>> believe me -- don't bother with reformatting.
>
>you are supposing that the symptom is the first sign of bit rot.
>this may not be the case. whatever. only a lowlevel reformat
>will mark badblocks as not available and thus ensure
>that stuff will not get reinstalled over.
>
>it looks from aunty bob's post that he has a bad block where
>one of his quicktime extensions should be.
>
>it is 'normal' to a certain extent to lose blocks over the
>life of a disk [this is also a good reason for using HFS+
>as the blocks are as small as possible in this case].
>
>but, if this starts happening with greater frequency, then
>herbie is right. buy a new disk and start from zero.
>
>btw, this is also why you should keep important backups on
>at least two different supports...
>
>:-j

I did a media check with Norton on all partitions, no problems found.

It may be that the files I have been trying to open got written to the bad
area somehow? Not real sure.

I have another drive that I guess is going out, because whenever I try to
do anything with it using DiskWarrior or Norton it goes into a cyclic buzz
after a bit into the directory scan. Though the drive works fine otherwise.
TechTool Pro says it is fine as far as hardware tests. All of them.

Argh. I think I will scan some more and see if these same 3 opcodes are
found in some file or extension or elsewhere.

Backing up these giant harddrives nowadays is very problematic. They be so
huuuge.

Thanks for all your suggestions, list.

Wave, Staz I will see about your scan code. Thanks.  Might have to write
Hex-Scan Beastie.

rc