New toy does not play well with older toy

Geek bitching follows.

Well, okay, so I went down to my friendly neighborhood Mac shop and saw that they had stock in of the SmartDisk VST Firewire Portable CD-R/W drive I was talking about in December. Well, yeah, I was talking about the Lacie then, but the VST is about the same size and does the same thing.And it was in stock.

Anyway. So I plug it into Cassandra, thinking I'll burn a little Audio CD in iTunes to test it out. And iTunes hangs. I force quit it, and try again. And iTunes hangs. Worse still, the entire system hangs. This is not good. OS X does not die except under potentially catastrophic circumstances. I reboot under Drive 10 and sure enough, the volume structure is screwed. So I start repair. This is taking an ungodly amount of time, so in desperation I take to booting under OS 9 and using Norton Utilities instead to repair and optimize the drive. Which it's just finished doing.

Now, let's see if it works.

DVD Deluge

Amazon.com dumped all of my recent orders onto me at one go today, so I am literally swamped with stuff to see. At this rate, plus the books, I'll be through in, oh, a couple of months. In the mail today were:

M*A*S*H the Movie (2 Discs)
M*A*S*H* Season 1 Set (3 Discs)
Roots 25th Anniversary Edition Set (3 Discs)
The Blue and the Gray (3 Discs)
Tron 20th Anniversary Edition (2 Discs)
Buckaroo Banzai Special Edition

I may be some time. Don't wait up.