The Apple Hardware Report: Some Things Don’t “Just Work”!
November 6th, 2008It’s very easy to sell a Mac to the skeptic when things function normally, and to be frank, they usually do. Indeed, I’ve also done pretty well in making that occasional deal to sell my old hardware to a local buyer.
However, on a rare occasion things don’t always work predictably. Some years back, for example, I was in the midst of ridding myself of a Power Mac G4. The prospective purchaser was just about ready to take the cash out of his wallet when I began a final backup of some remaining files.
Unfortunately the deal was almost aborted, as it appeared that the external drive failed at that very moment. It turned out to be the result of an early-release Mac OS X bug that would cause directory damage on some FireWire drives. In the end the problem was resolved with a fast Apple update and a corresponding update to the drive firmware, but I had to make some fast excuses to preserve the sale.
