Like I said, it worked fine when I did a reinstall, until I did the Apple software update, at which time it started again.
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Howell Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2011 4:16 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Anyone want to help confirm a bug? 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: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mr. L. Alexander Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2011 6:23 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. 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