It's possible that the Time Capsule disk is fine and Disk Utility is just being finicky about the repair.
http://blog.jthon.com/?p=31 http://pondini.org/TM/A5b.html http://warmsouthernbreeze.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/how-i-finally-fixed-the-sparsebundle-errors-on-apples-time-capsuletime-machine/ On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Jeff Weinberger <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > > -- arno s hautala /-| [email protected] pgp b2c9d448
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