I was away at a friend's yesterday and left my computer on and downloading a torrent (I have done this before and everything has been fine). When I came back today, I noticed that my computer was working very slowly so I restarted it. However, it would just stay at the grey screen with the wheel spinning forever instead of moving on to the blue screen.
I know that this has been reported many times before, even on this forum, but everything I tried does not work. I tried:
I also tried going into verbose mode. This was the last line of text:
Executing fsck_hfs (version diskdev_cmds-491 .2¬2)
It stayed like this for about 5 mins, then I got:
AppleAHCIDiskQueueMAnager : : serPowerState(0x4645700, 2 -> 1) timed out after 100235 ms
disk0s2: I/O error.
0 [Level 3] [ReadUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [ErrType IO] [IOType Read] [PBlknum 404489864] [LBlkNum 1] [FDLogMsgID 2011335813] [FSLogMsgOrder First]
0 [Level 3] [ReadUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [DevNode /dev/disk0s2] [MountPt /] [Path /private/var/db/BootCache.playlist] [FSLogMsg ID 2011335813] [FSLogMsgOrder Last]
BootCacheControl: could not read playlist data
Then nothing else appeared. I am using an iMac with 10.6.4. Please, can you give me help on how I can fix this problem? I hope the information helps. Many Thanks!
I know that this has been reported many times before, even on this forum, but everything I tried does not work. I tried:
- Holding down Command+S at startup and entering the command fsck -fy. Did not fix the problem
- Opening the Install Disc and going into Disk Utility. I repaired the permissions and verified that the HD has no problems but the problem persisted.
- Going into Safe Mode. This actually works fine, but unfortunately offers an extremely limited functionality of my computer.
I also tried going into verbose mode. This was the last line of text:
Executing fsck_hfs (version diskdev_cmds-491 .2¬2)
It stayed like this for about 5 mins, then I got:
AppleAHCIDiskQueueMAnager : : serPowerState(0x4645700, 2 -> 1) timed out after 100235 ms
disk0s2: I/O error.
0 [Level 3] [ReadUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [ErrType IO] [IOType Read] [PBlknum 404489864] [LBlkNum 1] [FDLogMsgID 2011335813] [FSLogMsgOrder First]
0 [Level 3] [ReadUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [DevNode /dev/disk0s2] [MountPt /] [Path /private/var/db/BootCache.playlist] [FSLogMsg ID 2011335813] [FSLogMsgOrder Last]
BootCacheControl: could not read playlist data
Then nothing else appeared. I am using an iMac with 10.6.4. Please, can you give me help on how I can fix this problem? I hope the information helps. Many Thanks!
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