Hold off.  I may have found the problem.  More soon.

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[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sarai Bucciarelli
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 12:06 AM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Anyone want to help confirm a bug?

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
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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