I'm still running Tiger, latest version ... 10.4.11 and haven't had one for years. Last week, though, I bought a Digital Caviar Black 500 GB drive, and the next day when I plugged in my Lexar Compact Flash Card reader, there it was, ugly as sin and twice as frightening.
It happened again the next day, when the Mac was just sitting there apparently behaving itself.
So I re-formatted the drive, overwriting with zeroes, and re- installed Tiger, then ran TechTool 4.1.2, which found a troglodite with a name I never heard of, and reported it had repaired it. For good measure I also ran Disk Warrior. I was still getting peculiar square artifacts about 16 x 16px, that looked like pieces of a dialog box, now and then showing some letters along the bottom but never enough to identify. So I did it all again, then cloned the other disk, which I knew didn't have any artifacts and had never panicked.
All seems fine now, but it does worry me.
I have read what I could find by searching the web, but found nothing useful, except a few others who had experienced similar, and who had gotten some erudite but unhelpful comments back.
Anyone know much about these things? The Kernel Panic and the square artifacts?
... Doug
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