Mac Weirdness
So I have two external drives that look alike. On one of them is a bootable backup of my Mac Pro. On the other, some backed up videos with their source media. I can’t tell the drives apart by looking at them, so I plug one in via the FireWire 800 port and look at the contents in a Finder window. Turns out it’s the bootable backup.
I eject it. I also unplug the FW800 cable from the external drive and leave it plugged into my Mac. I want to connect the other drive, right? But before I can, InDesign crashes. Then Photoshop crashes. Neither will relaunch. Photoshop gives me an “out of memory” message - which is bull because I have plenty of RAM installed. Anyway, I decide I’d better reboot.
My computer got stuck on a gray screen - I usually see it for a second before the Apple logo comes up. Several tries at restarting and that’s all I get.
Then I remember, long ago on my G4, it remembered what monitor I had connected, which caused me grief once when I swapped the monitor out. I don’t see how it could be related but just in case I pulled out the FW800 cable from the rear port, even though there is no drive attached to it.
Viola, the mac reboots fine after that.
What the hell is that about? OS X 10.6 bug? “Feature?” Anyone know?
