I recall Bill had a USB connection, but if I have this right, this also occurs with a firewire connection as well. I am going to test this out.
On Nov 27, 2011, at 2:17 PM, Mr. L. Alexander wrote: > can I clarify something please. > > 1: is the drive an external hard drive? > 1 a: if so was it purchased as a complete drive or built by you? > 2: are you using firewire or USB? > 3: what is the drive partitioned as and what format was used? > 4: is the drive itself producing strange noises on occasions? > > > sorry to ask these, I'm just trying to fathem this issue out. Sometimes the > finder can hang causing voiceover to lock in "Busy loop > > this can be due to an issue with external media and I've come across it. > > lew > > On 27 Nov 2011, at 19:11, 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. > 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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