mysterious file/disk suck on my powerbook

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I get disk I/O errors, which are the computer equivalent of coughing up blood; ominous.

They only happen with certain files. I notice it when syncing to my iPod or listening to music, for example. One music file will be a DEVIL FILE and cause the system to throw the I/O errors into the log after hanging up really badly (slow UI, processes crash, etc).

If I delete that one file then no problems for a while until another DEVIL FILE shows up.

I'm trying to figure out if maybe the iTunes-LAME script I use so I can use the LAME MP3 encoder might be contributing to this, or maybe LAME itself, but I can't see how. Maybe something is messed up with 10.4.3?

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[trinnit.livejournal.com]

What ^ he said. I used to get all kinds of I/O errors on my Linuux server, not enough to crash it or render it unuseable but when I tried to run certain programs it'd spit. Deleting those was a temporary fix that'd maybe buy me a month.
Luckily it wasnt devastating to the point of inoperability so I was able to get everything but a very few files off it.

Replacing the HDD cured it.