Killer

Ok, because my main tower has 3 hard drives and I didn’t want to buy a controller, the third hard drive (the smallest and least-important) is running on the ATAPI bus, where the CDROM was. I say ‘was’ because apparently running a CDROM and an HD on that ATAPI bus is ‘not supported’ by Apple or their implementation of ATAPI. This means that when I have the third hard drive plugged in, I don’t have the CD at my disposal.

Anyway, so I use the iBook’s CD drive, and connect to the mounted disc over the network. Nothing brain-busting here.

However, what’s incredible is that I just initiated an install over the network, and my wife closed the iBook, effectively putting it to sleep, taking away the CD for my use. I look at the installer and, unsurprisingy, it’s hanging, not responding, and not installing anymore, just stopped at whatever percent, trying to figure out what the hell is going on, as it’s being run from a machine that is now no longer itself running.

I turn the iBook back on and within seconds, it’s running again and installing the very same point it left off. No re-mounting the disc, or starting the install over. Astounding.

• Category: Macintosh