Interestingly I had not had issues very often in the past when dealing with VO and Disk Utility; however, I don't have to partition disks all that often either. I'm going to check this out a bit more because this is not something that should be happening, IMHO.
On Nov 27, 2011, at 6:22 AM, Mr. L. Alexander wrote: > 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. -- 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.
