> Dear listers, > > Is this a bug? I normally back up to an external disk, formatted as mac os 10 > extended, journaled, encrypted. Previously, when I hooked up the usb cable, > the disk would spin up, and a password prompt would appear, so I could unlock > the disk and then use it as normal. However, since having installed mountain > lion, what happens now is that after inserting the usb cable into the drive > and the mac, the disk spins up, but I no longer get the password prompt. This > means that I can not unlock the disk, and it has become sort of useless until > I find a solution. Is this a bug, or are things handled differently with > encrypted drives as of ml? > > In disk utility, I no longer get the 4 or 5 tabs. Instead, I only see the > first aid tab, and the partition tab. However, in both of these tab sheets, > there is nothing I can change. Not a single button or field is active. It's > all dimmed. So it appears that it is impossible for the moment, to wipe the > locked partition off the disk. > > I looked on google, and other folks seem to have this very problem as well. > What they did, was go back to another mac with lion, not mountain lion, and > use disk utility from there to wipe the external encrypted drive, and then > use it on the ml computer as normal to start from scratch. This works for > some, But this doesn't work for me either. > > I looked for a terminal command solution as well. I came across disk util. > This can wipe a drive, but I can't figure the command syntax. What I'm > missing is how to tell it, which drive I want wiped. I can include a mount > point in the disk util command line, but I have spaces in the name of my > drive. > > Any ideas how I can deal with this further? > > Paul.
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