perhaps, but that wouldn't explain why it happened on my internal data drive that came straight from Apple after I reformatted it.
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mr. L. Alexander Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2011 2:21 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Anyone want to help confirm a bug? 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: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Howell Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2011 6:16 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. 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