[ccp4bb] OS X Scala SCALES file weirdness

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Subject: OS X Scala SCALES file weirdness
From: "Winter, G (Graeme)" g {- dot -} winter {- at -} DL {- dot -} AC {- dot -} UK
Date: 2007-03-20

Hi Folks,

Sorry this is slightly off topic. I have an OS X PPC mac mini and I have
noticed some very strange behaviour. When I run scala for one example
the scales file that is produced is exactly 16384 bytes, and when I try
and restore this scala dies. Now running the same scaling job on an
intel iMac the scales file is a few bytes larger and can be read
appropriately.

This suggests to me that a few bytes are being "lost".

Weirder still, if I run the *same* job on an external firewire disk on
the ppc mac it works fine and produces a slightly bigger than 16k scales
file. This suggests to me that there is something unhappy about the file
system on this device. This came with OS X 10.3 and an "upgrade" to 10.4
instead of a 10.4 fresh install, though I have no idea why this would be
a problem. On both machines I am running the job in my home directory...

Has anyone noticed this behaviour? More usefully - has anyone got any
idea of how to prevent it?

Thanks,

Graeme

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