hmmmm this is now officially puzzling. it is worth noting here just in interest sake that the best way to use a hard drive on the mac is changing jumpers (IDE drives) to cable select.
this is getting me thinking. please wait while I try to connect you. the person you are calling knows you are waiting. BEEP! lew free macs for the blind On 27 Nov 2011, at 19:13, Bill Holton wrote: > Actually, it has also happened on an internal drive, but yes, after a > partition and format I can’t access the drive through finder or asave dialog > box. I can access it through the go to computer menu, or if I use the right > click menu option to copy any file onto the drive. > My wife can access the drive fine wiout VO running, but when I turn VO back > on it goes busy. > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Howell > Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2011 6:16 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Anyone want to help confirm a bug? > > 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.
