The reason Voiceover goes a little crazy is two fold. firstly, disk utility is rather intense when it comes to disk management as it's handling your SATA buses as well as USB and Firewire handling. When you format an external drive as an example, your USB or firewire BUS is taken over with that particular instruction, so the CPU is taking up some resources to manage that process.
as regards voiceover, Sometimes the speech synthesis server has a bit of a wobble. May I ask what version OS you are using at this point? if it's 10.7, there are a few niggles to be aware of. 10.6, I've noticed a few things but nothing that restarting voiceover won't harm. I use an external disk destroyer suite / diagnostic interface for managing drives including partitioning, volume testing, data destruction and disk aging and it's linked via USB so I can either use it standalone or VIA USB / firewire with disk utility where needed. just to let you know, don't worry, just quit voiceover and reload it. no problem. lew On 27 Nov 2011, at 11:16, Scott Howell wrote: > Hi BIll, > > > So, just to confirm, if you attach an external USB drive, partition/format > the drive, and then attempt to access it VO will go busy? I have been having > some interesting drive issues myself, but not sure if this is related to what > you are experiencing. I'm more than happy to subject a drive to the > experiment. :) > > Scot > > On Nov 26, 2011, at 11:34 PM, Bill Holton wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> Does anyone have an extra USB drive they can afford to reformat for a little >> experiment to see if you get the same problem I do? >> >> Here's the situation. >> >> A few weeks ago I started having trouble with my Time Machine backup. So I >> figured I would just go ahead and repartition it—it's a two-tarabyte drive, >> format it and go from there. Did this,formatted with Mac Extended >> journaling, but when I tried to open the drive Finder kept hanging and >> reporting busy, busy, busy…. Eventually the fan would come on, the only way >> I could stop it was to restart the Mac.This error has been driving me and >> the folks at Appple nuts. First they thought it was a bad USB drive, >> happens on all three of my drives. And if I turn off VO and let my wife >> have a crack at it she can get to the drive easily. Turn back on VO, try to >> acces the drive, Busy. Busy. Busy. >> >> Strangely, if I copy a file from one of my folders and use the right click >> to copy that file to the drive it copies fine, and from that point on I can >> access the drive—I'm just not convinced this is a long term solution, and >> eventually I will start having more Time machine problems. >> >> So today I bit the bullet and reformatted the drive. Everything worked >> fine…until I tried using iTunes. iTunes required a software update, and so >> the Mac took the opportunity to update all of my OS files as well. As you >> have probably guessed at this point, as soon as the system updates were >> installed and the Mac restarted I was back to the same old problems. >> >> I don't have a second mac to try this one, but is anyone else having trouble >> accessing freshly partitioned drives via Finder? >> >> Any help much, much appreciated. >> >> Bill >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
