[solved] torrent clients crashing snow leopard?

[hippy dave]

since moving house, my crashes are much less frequent - only about 3 in the last 2 weeks....
meh.

[Inuyasha]

i'm not blaming this one directly on transmission, but i thought i'd post here in case anyone has had similar experiences or has any suggestions.

Slow death, the latest crazy bug? Are you new here by any chance?

Choose two of the three for your answer: upstream's fault, wontfix, worksforme

[hippy dave]

thanks so much for that, but if you'd read the thread you'd probably see that's not the same issue i'm having.

[hippy dave]

urg, well i've finally pinned down and solved my problem. pretty bemused by the whole thing, tho glad it's sorted.

despite all tests (surface scan, SMART etc) always saying it was fine, the damn hard disc turned out to be the problem. i only found this out through chance. i happened to already have a terminal window open, and i happened to be trying to connect a usb hard drive, when this problem started sneaking up on me one time. the usb drive didn't mount, so i went to the terminal window and checked the /dev directory to see if there was any sign of it. there wasn't, but there was also no sign of disk0 and disk0s0 that are always there from the internal drive - only disk0s1 (the main partition) remained. somehow the drive is spontaneously dismounting or no longer communicating with the os properly. since discovering this, i've cloned the system onto another drive, and have been running from that absolutely fine, rock solid, not a single problem, so there was clearly never anything wrong with the software configuration of snow leopard or anything else.

sigh. waiting to hear back from western digital.