I have some SAS spinning disks, and SSDs, that were in enterprise storage arrays. One characteristic they share is that they are formatted to 520 bytes per block rather than 512. In order to use them ...
I also had a kernel panic while trying to repartition for Boot Camp under 10.5.2 -- twice in a row, actually, before giving up. While I was able to recover and fix everything by using Disk Utility via ...