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Coincidence??? Or dangerous???

I'm just checking here before I start a Diskwarrior on my external iomega ultramax 2 disk Raid 1 disk...

I'm concerned if Crossover (accessing my external HFS firewire drive) could have caused some serious damage. Is that possible (knowing very little of how the bottles access my Mac drives)?

I had to do a hard shutdown (dash it all) and now my 500Gb Raid 1 (Mirror) is not working.

Disk Utility says:

Verifying volume “Shmingup”
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Invalid key length
Volume check failed.
Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed.

Anybody have any thoughts or suggestions or comments?

Thanks much.

James
(using Trial of Crossover. Thanks to Intel it Runs Windows Dreamweaver 8 faster than Mac Dreamweaver 8!)

CrossOver cannot do damage to your hardware, since it is MacOS' job to prevent a user mode application like CrossOver from harming your harddrive. If CrossOver causes damage accidentally, then a virus could deliberately break your hardware.

Similar rules apply to hard crashes: It is the operating system's job to prevent user mode apps from crashing the systems. If there is a crash, it is a MacOS bug by definition.

CrossOver accesses the hard drives like any other Mac app does. MacOS mounts it, binds them to a directory in /Volumes/. CrossOver requests a list of mounted volumes from MacOS, and shows a new drive letter with the contents of the directory in /Volumes/.../ to the app. When the app opens a file, CrossOver uses the regular MacOS file access functions to handle the request.

Stefan,

Thanks for the clarification. So, most likely, it's whatever particular thing that was happening while I did the hard shutdown that somehow messed up the disk data. I wish I knew what that was.

Result:

I bought Disk Warrior 4.1 and "rebuilt" the directory. And within 2 minutes (on my 500Gb drive), I had a brand new optimized fully working read-only directory of my disk drive and a bunch of recovered files (I believe stuff I had already trashed?). Before I do anything more, I'll backup the entire disk. Then I'll have Disk Warrior replace the directory and it'll be all fixed.

Thanks again!