Hi Folks, Sorry this is slightly off topic. I have an OS X PPC mac mini and I have noticed some very strange behaviour. When I run scala for one example the scales file that is produced is exactly 16384 bytes, and when I try and restore this scala dies. Now running the same scaling job on an intel iMac the scales file is a few bytes larger and can be read appropriately.
This suggests to me that a few bytes are being "lost". Weirder still, if I run the *same* job on an external firewire disk on the ppc mac it works fine and produces a slightly bigger than 16k scales file. This suggests to me that there is something unhappy about the file system on this device. This came with OS X 10.3 and an "upgrade" to 10.4 instead of a 10.4 fresh install, though I have no idea why this would be a problem. On both machines I am running the job in my home directory... Has anyone noticed this behaviour? More usefully - has anyone got any idea of how to prevent it? Thanks, Graeme
