I/O Error?

[Fearless Leader]

I am getting some strange errors. I have a G5 with a and external 300gb hd. Imovie, when opening a file off the external will often crash, I go to the console and i see many I/O errors then imovie crashing. This happens in idvd too. When exporting to the drive in FCP 5 it fails with an I/O error and dvd studio pro also does this.

I think the I/O error is pretty serrious, am i right? should i get everything off the drive? Is somthing wrong with my G5?

 

[mad jew]

It's quite a general error that means OSX is having trouble reading and writing to the drive. Open Disk Utility and try repairing the external drive. If that doesn't help, then see if you can get your hands on a different cable or enclosure to test your current ones. Also, would reformatting the drive be an option if it comes to that?

 

[Fearless Leader]

I going to try to repair, osx is having trouble copying a file to another drive. so i going to get spinrite to work its magic if all this fails.

Here is what happened.

Verify and Repair disk “External”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Invalid node structure
Rebuilding Catalog B-tree.
Rechecking volume.
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
Invalid volume file count
(It should be 6521 instead of 5482)
Invalid volume directory count
(It should be 1414 instead of 1139)
Invalid volume free block count
(It should be 38974641 instead of 47969998)
Volume Header needs minor repair
Repairing volume.
Rechecking volume.
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
The volume External was repaired successfully.
Mounting Disk

1 HFS volume checked
Repair attempted on 1 volume
	1 HFS volume repaired

edit: wow this disk is screwed up.

 

[mad jew]

Okay, continue repairing it 'til it makes no changes.