On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Karl Kuehn <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mar 25, 2014, at 3:38 PM, Jeff Weinberger <[email protected]> > wrote: > > My acute sense of the obvious failed me on that one. Thank you for > reminding me. > > However, Disk Utility can't (or won't) mount it or even acknowledge it. I > can't copy it to any of the Macs in the house, and I can't open it (now I > get "no readable file system"). > > If I could delete it, I could start over - it would not be a big deal in > this case. > > But I also suspect something with the Time Capsule disk - any suggestions > for how to repair this? > > > If you can't copy the sparcebundle, then chances are very good that the > physical disk is failing. And based on what you have described, there is a > very good chance that one of the physical sectors underlying at least one > of the sparcebundle stripes was involved in this failure. If you can't get > it mounted, then there is a very good chance that it is so corrupted that > you are not going to get much from it (disk images are not as robust as > physical disks this way). > > As a last resort, sometimes damaged disk images will open with: > > hdiutil attach -noverify -ignorebadcheckums -noautofsck > > Even if it opens I would expect data corruption. But if you are getting > "no readable file system" then there is a good chance that the volume > headers are gone, and that makes recovery even more difficult (certainly > beyond me). > > I"m guessing the Time Capsule disk is failing. Again. They do this far too often and far too quickly. I was hoping to avoid replacing it, but it looks liek I have no choice... Thanks for your help! > -- > Karl Kuehn > [email protected] >
_______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
