Hi: I have a 2010 MBP. On Nov 27, 2011, at 7:26 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote:
> 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.
