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So this problem is an OS X installer problem, where it overwrites a preinstalled disk driver. You install a third-party driver, install OS X, then must reinstall the third-party driver for later use under OS 9.x.
OS X never uses the driver from the device's driver partition, nor does it care what's there. As far as why that third-party driver becomes corrupted or inoperable, my first guess is to blame that driver. OS X never rewrites or modifies the partition map or the driver partition(s) in normal operation. It's possible that the third-party driver is checking something in the HFS partition on the drive. This is bad form, because it's making an assumption about something in file-system data. A driver has no business doing anything with filesystems; it should read and write blocks, period. Perhaps the driver is stashing some data item in an "unused" field in the HFS meta-data. Drivers have done this before under MacOS, stashing passwords, encryption keys, etc.
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I think you've used Silverlining or HDTK once or twice over the years when it comes to caching a little data here and there. ;) |
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