Sawtooth hardware problems.

[ken27238]

So recently I have been having some problems with my Power Mac G4 Sawtooth, here they are (in no particular order):

1) When I hold down the option button to select which volume to boot off of, it loads I select the HD that I want and I click the load arrow. But instead of booting it just reloads the list and it will do that each time I click the arrow, it only does that with the OS 9 volume.

2)When I use Disk Warrior to try and repair the OS 9 volume it will get through part of it but then it gives me a -36 error (I/O error).

3) it will randomly Hard Freeze when its booted in OS 9.

all of this is leading me to believe the HD is failing, but if you know different please let me know

 

[coius]

also, check the IDE cable. I had a bad cable that did this that had a bad ground/signal wire that vibration caused it to open causing issues. Including data corruption and frequent stalls in OS X.

So try replacing the drive, but I would back up your data using a different disc as the install disc, then if you can run a program like Norton, look for bad blocks. If you see any/get stalls, chances are the drive is bad. Replace and retest.

 

[H3NRY]

Sure sounds like a bad drive to me.