Hi: I just formatted a drive with Lion and a 2010 MBP. No issues at all. On Nov 27, 2011, at 5:16 AM, 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. >> 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. > 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. 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.
