Odd Issue when using Firewire drive with Leopard-Locks up Dock, etc.

I have an odd issue that has developed on my MBP using OS X 10.5.1 Leopard. It only appears to occur when I plug in my External Firewire Lacie Rugged Hard Drive. I only use that Hard Drive approximately once a week when doing a complete mirror backup of my MBP's Hard Drive using SuperDuper. As far as I can tell the issue occurs only once the Hard Drive is plugged in, not because of SuperDuper or the Backup.
Here is the issue: For some reason within a minute of plugging in my hard drive my Dock doesn't work. It scrolls when I put the mouse pointer down to the Dock but it won't open up any icons I click on. It's just like it doesn't recognize the left mouse button. Also, I am unable to select any menus at the top of the screen. I can left click on them and even right click on an icon such as Macintosh HD on the desktop and there is no response. I am able to drag Windows across my desktop though but it seems overall that my keyboard becomes inactive. For example in a open Numbers spreadsheet I am able to use the left mouse button (so it works then) to select a textbox and get the blinking cursor but yet if I type and use even the delete key there is no response. Even after I'm done with the Hard Drive if I drag the Lacie to the trash to eject it won't eject. The only way to eject it is simply pull the Firewire cable out.
I had a few issues with my system earlier and found out I had some bad memory. The memory was replaced and the problems went away. I am worried I had some corrupted files from that time but what puzzles me is I have used my laptop for weeks with no problems. It is only while I plug in this hard drive. In a worse case if I can't figure out how to fix it I feel I'll have to do a complete format and reinstall Leopard and I don't want to have to do that. This only occurs when I do the backup but can be a pain. Any ideas if I can fix this?

Erase and reformat the ext HD. Then, redo the SuperDuper! backup.

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Erase and reformat the ext HD. Then, redo the SuperDuper! backup.

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I am in the process of migrating to a Mac from Windows XP. I have an external hard drive (WD MyBook Pro 250gb) which I have been using to backup data to from Windows. The device is currently formatted to 120gb using NTFS so that Windows can backup to it. The remaining space is currently unformatted.
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Hi, thanks for your interest
I am working with 10.2.0.4
My objective is to load a subset of the reservation data from the tables in the first DB (Reservation-OLTP-150 tables)
to the tables in the second DB (Reporting - about 15 tables at the moment), without affecting performance on the Reservation DB.
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My performance difficulties start at the notification but I will post all the relevant code before notification, in case it has an impact.
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comment => 'Report queue table',
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message_grouping => DBMS_AQADM.NONE,
compatible => '10.0.0',
sort_list => 'ENQ_TIME',
primary_instance => '0',
secondary_instance => '0');
dbms_aqadm.create_queue (
queue_name => '&&CRQ_QUEUE_NAME',
queue_table => '&&CRQ_QUEUE_TABLE_NAME',
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src_queue_name IN VARCHAR2,
destination IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL
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latency => 10);
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS
THEN
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DBMS_AQADM.add_subscriber (queue_name => p_queue_name, subscriber => subscriber_agent );
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- job_queue_processes is set to 10
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CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE DLEX_AQ_ADMIN.queue_callback
context RAW,
reginfo SYS.AQ$_REG_INFO,
descr SYS.AQ$_DESCRIPTOR,
payload RAW,
payloadl NUMBER
IS
s_procname CONSTANT VARCHAR2 (40) := UPPER ('queue_callback');
r_dequeue_options DBMS_AQ.DEQUEUE_OPTIONS_T;
r_message_properties DBMS_AQ.MESSAGE_PROPERTIES_T;
v_message_handle RAW(16);
o_payload RESV_DETAIL;
BEGIN
r_dequeue_options.msgid := descr.msg_id;
r_dequeue_options.consumer_name := descr.consumer_name;
DBMS_AQ.DEQUEUE(
queue_name => descr.queue_name,
dequeue_options => r_dequeue_options,
message_properties => r_message_properties,
payload => o_payload,
msgid => v_message_handle
-- Call procedure to load data from reservation database to Reporting DB through the DB link
dlex_report.dlex_data_load.load_reservation
( in_resvcode => o_payload.resv_code,
in_resvHistorySequence => o_payload.resv_history_sequence );
COMMIT;
END queue_callback;
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I guess I would need to use the REMOVE option to delete messages from the queue?
Would this be a large source of performance degradation after just a few thousand messages?
- The data load through the DB may be a little bit intensive but I feel that doing things in parallel would help.
I would like to understand if Oracle has a way of dequeuing in parallel (with or without the use of notification)
In the case of multiple subscribers with notification , does 'job_queue_processes' value has an impact on the degree of parallelism? If not what setting has?
And is there a way supplied by Oracle to set the queue to notify only one subscriber per message?
Your advice would be very much appreciated
Philippe
Edited by: user528100 on Feb 23, 2009 8:14 AM

Using USB drive between Leopard and Snow Leopard

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Message was edited by: Rod Hagen

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Regards
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Start here
Installing Oracle Database 11g Release 1 on Enterprise Linux 5 (32- and 64-bit)
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/smiley-11gr1-install.html#kernel
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[root@linux3 OCFS2]# uname -a
Linux linux3 2.6.18-8.el5 #1 SMP Tue Jun 5 23:11:13 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
OCFS2
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parport 37513 2 lp,parport_pc
snd_page_alloc 13641 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
serio_raw 10693 0
ohci1394 32964 1
ieee1394 83252 2 sbp2,ohci1394 <-
ohci is part of kernel modules !
./modules/2.6.18-8.el5/updates/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.ko
ext3 123081 1
jbd 56553 2 ocfs2,ext3
ehci_hcd 32845 0
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[root@linux3 sysconfig]# dmesg | grep 1394
ieee1394: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[201] MMIO=[ea125000-ea1257ff] Max Packet=[2048] IR/IT contexts=[4/8]
ieee1394: The root node is not cycle master capable; selecting a new root node and resetting...
ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0030e002e04546d5]
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-01:1023] GUID[001106664001995a]
ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io=1)
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scsi0 : SBP-2 IEEE-1394
ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device
ieee1394: Node 0-00:1023: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048]
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Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 1824 14651248+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 * 1959 4699 22017082+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 4700 4865 1333395 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda4 1825 1958 1076355 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Disk /dev/sda: 82.3 GB, 82348277760 bytes <= Firewire Disk
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 5000 40162468+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 5001 6217 9775552+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 6218 7434 9775552+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 7435 10011 20699752+ 83 Linux
Please let me know if you need more information.
J

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Long File Names Cause Crashing http://forums.adobe.com/thread/588273
Encore Tutorial http://www.precomposed.com/blog/2009/05/encore-tutorial/

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