OS X Crashes
Had another kernel panic just now. I had selected a .aiff file in the finder (column view) and clicked on “play” in the far right column. Crash. Seems to be something relating to some other program. The commonality in all my crashes has been that Mail and Safari are both open when the panic happens. Of course, as I pretty much just use OS X for Mail and web-browsing, that’s 100% of the time. Giles also had the idea that it might be related to the Western Digital drive that I installed shortly after I got the G4. WD drives are notoriously bad. I’ve had one fail and G. has had several. Broke my cardinal rule: don’t buy cheap stuff.
February 5th, 2004 at 11:39 pm
Could it be a corrupted AIFF file?
February 6th, 2004 at 11:51 am
Nope. After I rebooted I tried again with nothing open and it worked fine. I’ve also used that HD extensively in OS 9 for digital audio and haven’t had a single problem. My money is on a conflict somewhere between some combination of Quicktime, Mail, Safari, and whatever drivers control the Western Digital HD.