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Authored by: eo on May 02, '02 12:24:53PM

I had a serious problem with Drive Saver after updating to 10.1.4 (system: PowerMac G4/667). Upon restarting (after the update), I tried to empty the trash and got a kernel panic. The offending command came from a Symantec kext (kernel extension), according to the text which was sprayed across the upper left corner of the screen. I rebooted, then uninstalled all Norton products, and removed the invisible Drive Saver files from each volume.

During all this, I was unable to mount an external firewire drive that was attached to the system - an error dialog said something like "unable to mount this firewire device because there is a problem with it; please run disk utility." Disk Utility refused to fix the problem, saying "Can't open /dev/disk1: Permission denied". Not good.

Rebooted and ran DiskWarrior, which fixed the problem with the firewire drive. However, I still have a lingering problem with the three partitions on the stock internal HD. Trying to run Disk Utility, or even running fsck while in single-user mode, gives this response "Can't open /dev/rdisk0s8: Permission denied". Rather than fiddle with permissions I will just reformat/reinstall someday.

Before all this, all my data/apps were backed up to the FW HD, and all my important data was also on DAT tape, so this was just an inconvience to me -- one that will cause me to advise everyone NOT to use Norton products on OSX.



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Drive Saver
Authored by: eo on May 02, '02 02:44:13PM

Oops, make that "File Saver" not Drive Saver. :-o



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