Bill, this actually does sound really familiar. You say you have been working with Apple? If so, I will conduct another test and circle back to you. I think this is what I was seeing yesterday, but was attributing it to something else.
On Nov 27, 2011, at 2:11 PM, Bill Holton wrote: > Hi. > Actually, it’s not a problem using Disk Utility. What I was explaining was > that after I use DU to re-partition and format a drive I can’t access it > using Finder. Ironically, I learned last night that if I use the go to menu > to go to the computer and then open the drive from that list it opens fine. > If I close the drive, move to finder and try to open it from my desktop it > won’t open. Nor will it open from any file menu box. Finder starts saying > busy, and it will continue to say busy for 8 hours, which is the longest I > have let things run. The fan starts running hot and doesn’t stop until I > turn off VO, still can’t access the drive when I turn VO back on, Finder > crashes and won’t let me force quit, have to restart the Mini. Command Option > Escape will supposedly restart it, but all VO sees is a blank screen. > I have checked the activity monitor while this is happening. Finder stays at > a low menmory useage, but VO goes up to 360%--mine is a quad core. > And it’s not just USB drives. When I reformatted one of the mini’s two > internal drives I couldn’t access that one, either, until after I had used > the right click menu to copy a file onto the drive. > Last night I reinstalled Lion. Everything worked fine, until I did a > software update, then it started happening just as before. So the problem > seems to be in one of the software updates. > I have a server edition of the Mini, which may be the specific Mac or mac > software update this is a problem on. > Any further thoughts and suggestions welcome. > Bill > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mr. L. Alexander > Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2011 6:23 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Anyone want to help confirm a bug? > > 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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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