[OT] G4 goes West

[Richmond]

Dear RunRev users,
   My G4 Mac decided to "play silly bu**ers" on Monday and stopped
functioning. Managed to boot it in Mac OS9 and am now backing up
all my data onto a Maxell 'Tank' (1.5 TB) before blanking the 4 ATA
disks and starting from scratch. Most of the partitions won't mount under
10.3 / .4 / .5 and disk tools says they are incapable of being repaired; 
which
is gae queer as they mount under '9'.

Gosh; backing up over a USB connexion is glacial . . .   :(

And here I am writing "love letters" on a Pentium 2 with 32 MB RAM
running Damn Small Linux!

The only reason I can think of as to why the machine went wonky is that I
tried to get the L2 cache working with 10.5: anybody else with ideas in this
direction?

So; rest easy; no major burbles will be forthcoming from my direction for
at least a week.

sincerely, Richmond.