Big disk problems - or big-disk problems?
Hi there!
I have really big problems. I try to set up a 45 GB Western Digital Caviar 450AA (secondary IDE controller, master-drive). I patched my machine with the recommended patch cluster which also contains patch no. 110202-01 for the ata-drivers. I am able to fdisk the drive with a geometry file using fdisk with options. I am also able to partition the disk with the native solaris 8 x86 format tool. I label the disk - fine so far. But when I try to build a filesystem on it, newfs terminates wih errors. I afterwards tried to set up a scsi-disk with 4,1 GB (IBM DCAS 34330). The same problem occured: newfs (as well as mkfs with options) terminated with the following error message:
mkfs: bad value for size: 0 must be between 1024 and 0
mkfs: size reset to default 0
mkfs: bad value for ntrack: 6 must be between 1 and 0
mkfs: ntrack reset to default 16
seek error on sector -1: invalid argument
That's pretty strange, isn't it? I don't know wheter Solaris x86 is that different from Solaris SPARC edition. Perhaps I'm too dumb to get this machine working and should put my fingers off Solaris x86 edition.
Could anybody in this world help me? Or has anybody the same problems? You know - it's just for my collegues: they are now calling me brad...
Greetings
SERGEJ
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I think the problem is Quick Time Player. I am using OS 10.6.8 by the way.
I tried it out again.
I had about 26 GB of space before I played an .avi video.
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I watched to the end of the movie.
Then I quit Quicktime Player.
And I shut down the computer.
I turned on the computer and checked Disk Utility. I have about 26 GB of space.
I think for some reason Quicktime Player uses up a lot of the disk space when it runs movies that are problematic. This movie I was watching did not open with vlc.
I normally use vlc to watch movies.
Probably it doesn't use up this much space when the movie is OK.
I think there's a problem with this particular movie. It is about 50 MB so it's not that big a file. I watch .smi subtitles with it. The Quicktime Player automatically loads the subtitle file in this case because the subtitle file has the same name as the movie file.
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5 - I tried another external hard drive, and the volume also doesn't appear in the Disk section under the AirPort utility.
The WD disk is formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
This is a big problem for me, as the drive houses my iTunes library.
Anyone else had a similar problem? It all worked flawlessly until last week.I love computers.
Have managed to fix this already. Been working the issue for a few days now, and a few minutes after writing the above post I decided to reset the Time Capsule to factory default settings.
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Hi all,
In brief: Disk Utility seems to think I've got a big problem, Disk Warrior seems to be unable to fix it.
More detail: I ran verify disk from Disk Utility and was told I needed to repair my startup volume. So I ran Disk Utility's repair disk function from the install CD and it was unable to repair the disk. It was also unable to repair permissions.
So I reached for trusty Disk Warrior and ran that. It rebuilt the directory, reporting various changes, eventually ending with zero errors. That should have fixed it, right?
But then I re-ran Disk Utilty and was told, again, that the disk needed to be repaired.
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Needless to say, if my startup disk DOES need repair, I want to do something about it. But does it need repair? And if Disk Warrior can't fix it, what can? Could it be that Disk Utility is seeing a problem that's invisible to Disk Warrior?
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Dual G5 2.5Ghz 2GB RAM, Powerbook G4 1.33Ghz, iPod 60GB Mac OS X (10.4.8) 500GB internal HDDHi Allan,
Sure thing. Here's the business.
Disk Warrior (v3.0.3)
DW reports that it's successfully rebuilt a new directory each time I run it. I've run it three times now. The first time, there were differences between the original directory and the rebuilt version and it displayed a message coloured red describing this. On the subsequent two occasions, it has displayed a message coloured green and said there are "no changes to the number or contents of the files and folders" in the rebuilt directory.
DW's manual diagnostic reports that the drive itself is "operating normally."
DU
Running DU internally (from the volume that also contains 10.4.9), it can only 'verify', of course. The volume's name is 'G5 hard drive'. The full message is:
Verifying volume “G5 hard drive”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Incorrect number of Extended Attributes
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
d.",1)
G5 hard drive
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
1 HFS volume checked
Volume needs repair
Running DU (repair disk) from the install CD (for Powermac G5, OS X 10.3.5) produces the following report:
Repairing disk for "G5 hard drive"
Checking HFS plus volume
Checking extents overflow file
Checking catalog file
Checking multi-linked files
Checking catalog hierachy
Checking extent attributes file
Invalid leaf record count
(It should be 3 instead of 422)
Repairing volume
The volume G5 hard drive was repaired successfully
Repair attempted on 2 volumes
1 HFS volume repaired
1 HFS volume could not be repaired
So let's say that DW is doing it all right, and the copy of DU on the install CD (10.3.5) is producing an inaccurate result because it doesn't match up with Tiger, I can understand that. But why would the same problem come up with DU run internally from (in the course of the last 24 hours) both 10.4.8 and 10.4.9 (because the problem survived my upgrade)?
On the other hand, Allan, possibly DW isn't the right tool for the job. In that case, do you know what is?
Thanks,
Jason
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It says something like this:
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Use "e" to start edit and move the cursor to the kernel line, make the change and enter.
Follow the instructions to continue booting. -
Time machine backups are failing. I've followed the instructions I found on the Time Machine troubleshooting page (http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html) but have gotten to where I don't know what to do next.
Sequence of events:
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An error occurred while copying files. The problem could be temporary. If the problem persists, use Disk Utility to repair your backup disk.
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Starting manual backup
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Error: (5) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.SnapshotState path:/Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/Tery Griffin’s Computer (44)/2014-03-05-201742.inProgress/ABB10CF2-F041-4DE5-B6AE-3C228B59ADCC size:2
Deep event scan at path:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|
Finished scan
Found 145601 files (11.88 GB) needing backup
16.1 GB required (including padding), 620.77 GB available
Copied Zero KB of 11.88 GB, 0 of 145601 items
Copied 0 files (Zero KB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Copy stage failed with error:11
Backup failed with error: 11
Ejected Time Machine disk image: /Volumes/Tery Griffin's Time Capsule/Tery Griffin’s Computer (44).sparsebundle
Ejected Time Machine network volume.
Starting automatic backup
Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://Tery%20Griffin;[email protected]/Tery%20Griffin's%20Time%20Ca psule
Mounted network destination at mount point: /Volumes/Tery Griffin's Time Capsule using URL: afp://Tery%20Griffin;[email protected]/Tery%20Griffin's%20Time%20Ca psule
Disk image /Volumes/Tery Griffin's Time Capsule/Tery Griffin’s Computer (44).sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
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Error: (-36) Applying backup protections to /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/Tery Griffin’s Computer (44)/2014-03-05-201742.inProgress/9F8E7957-9C50-49C3-8314-880E5203E3D9
Error: (5) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.SnapshotStartDate path:/Volumes/Time Machine Backups/
Does anyone know what the problem is here and what I should do?
Thanks,
TeryYou have repaired your boot drive (which is good) but have you repaired your time machine drive? I don't own a Time Capsule so I don't know if disk utility can operate on it. If it can, you should repair it as well. You may need to erase it and start a new backup. That happens to time machine volumes from time to time and is why people who are serious about their data never rely on a single source of backup.
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My wife did tell me after i had written this post that she did try and record TV to it as it was plugged in. I think by doing so somehow has deleted everything. It reads on my TV yet has no files in it but won't show up on my computer. hope this helps.
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Disk Utility....problems copying DVDs
First off, the DVD’s I will refer to are ones I made myself, on this same machine. I’m not duplicating commercial stuff.
A while back I successfully used the Disk Utility to make a disc image of an old DVD and make a copy of it. Now, however, I can’t get rid of the disk image. It does not appear on the desktop or in my list of volumes, but it is always present in the lower-left window of the disk utility tool.
How do I get rid of it?
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I recently starting receiving the error message "Time Machine couldn't complete the backup to... An erro occurred while copying files. The problem may be temporary. If the problem persists, use Disk Utility to repair your backup disk. I have had no problems backing up my MacBook Pro 2011 to my Western Digital My Book Live through a Linksys EA4500 router until recently. I've made no major changes. I've ran a diagnosis on my back up drive with no problems. The Time Machine back up starts, but about after about 5 to 10 minutes I get the error message. I can see the shared drive in Finder. The light on the drive blinks while it starts the back up. I can see the shared folders on the networked drive. The backup process starts but for some reason it just stops. Can anyone help?
You can't repair a network volume in Disk Utility.
Backing up to a third-party NAS with Time Machine is risky, and unacceptably risky if it's your only backup. I know this isn't the answer you want, and I also know that the manufacturer says the device will work with Time Machine, and that it usually seems to work. Except when you try to restore, and find that you can't.
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If you're determined to keep using the NAS for backup, your only recourse for any problems that result is to the manufacturer (which will blame Apple.) -
I have a MacBook Pro 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4GB, 500GB HDD, running 10.8.2 My computer as been running slow and fearing my HDD might die. I bought a brand new 1TB G-Drive from Apple yesterday and started my back up. It gets to just over 22GB backed up then I get this error message:
"An error occurred while copying files. The problem may be temporary. If the problem persists, use Disk Utility to repair your backup disk."
Anyone out there who might be able to help me fix this?I have a MacBook Pro 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4GB, 500GB HDD, running 10.8.2 My computer as been running slow and fearing my HDD might die. I bought a brand new 1TB G-Drive from Apple yesterday and started my back up. It gets to just over 22GB backed up then I get this error message:
"An error occurred while copying files. The problem may be temporary. If the problem persists, use Disk Utility to repair your backup disk."
Anyone out there who might be able to help me fix this? -
I purchased Microsoft Office for Mac through the Apple website.. I have downloaded all from the disk into my Mac, no problem with all the other Word etc, but Outlook is asking for the key number: I have put it in but its obviously not the right one...???? In the box with the disk came the product key, have put it in and it doesnt work. Please help..x
unfortunately - you can not. you can't even buy outlook by itself at microsoft's own website.
does it have to be outlook? maybe you can get away with using something else that's outlook compatible.
how about trying Thunderbird for Mac OS?
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The problem may be temporary. Try again later to back up. If the problem persists, use Disk Utility to repair your backup disk.
what does this mean?? why can't i backup before i have to get my hard drive replaced?!!? arghhbrahr3 wrote:
I am getting the same error message: "The problem may be temporary. Try again later to back up. If the problem persists, use Disk Utility to repair your backup disk." I don't have a TC but rather an external drive, which is twice the size of my harddisc, and it still has plenty of free space. The problem has lasted for 5 days. I even used a different external drive -- still same error message. Needless to say that I have run Disc Utility several times. Can anybody help? Thanks
I am having issues with some USB drives on Mountain Lion.. work perfectly on another computer with Snow Leopard.. not even recognised by ML.
Is the disk recognised?
If so and TM cannot pick it up.. do a full reset of TM and try again.
A4 http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html -
My Airport TM will not backup and i keep getting the error msg "Time Machine couldn’t complete the backup...An error occurred while copying files. The problem may be temporary. If the problem persists, use Disk Utility to repair your backup disk."
My Airport TM will not backup and i keep getting the error msg "Time Machine couldn’t complete the backup...An error occurred while copying files. The problem may be temporary. If the problem persists, use Disk Utility to repair your backup disk."
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No bootable device -- insert a boot disk and press any key problem
My laptop model is L505 s59903.
It is suddenly turn to black screen and not work,When I restart it , the screen shows "No bootable device -- insert a boot disk and press any key".
I try to recovery the system, but it can not find the hard disk. In CMOS ,the hard disk shows "none".
I have important data in my laptop. Is it hard disk Failure? How can I recovery my data in the hard disk?
I try to replace other hard disk to the laptop , it is work. Then I made the failure hard disk as portable hard disk to other laptop ,it has normal sound ,but still can not be found.
What`s problem is it?
Can I recovery my data from hard disk ?It sounds to me like that hard drive has indeed failed. Please contact support at (800) 457-7777.
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Problem with mounting disk images
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