Can't manually mount sparse bundle, but time machine works fine

I use an external drive off my AEBS for time machine. Time machine successfully performs backups and I can use time machine itself to browse files starfield (thing). However if I try to manually mount the time machine sparse bundle, it gets stuck at "checking volume" indefinitely. I had tried connecting the disk directly to my MBP with similar results and also tried repairing it but no errors found. I can mount the disk if I just skip "checking volume". I just erased my time machine disk and made a new sparse bundle back up. Same issue still. Any thoughts?

"checking volume" shouldn't last longer than repairing the bundle with disk utility. how long does that take? in any event I don't see that you have an actually problem. there is normally no need to mount the bundle manually and you can do it anyway if you skip verification step. what more do you want?

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- Option B: If you are using wireless, this means use shift-command-k (or shift-apple-k), and if it says "Connect As..." in the upper right instead of disconnect, then use that button to *connect to that wireless drive*.
- Confirm the sparsebundle shows in that folder before proceeding...
- *Open Terminal* (Applications>Utilities>Terminal.app)
- Type: *hdiutil attach -noverify* (<-- notice a *space " "* must be included after typing this here but *DON'T hit return* yet.)
- *Drag the sparsebundle to the cursor in terminal*, and it should fill in something like /Volumes/HardDrive/COMPUTERNAME.sparsebundle for you. Now you can hit return, and the disk will mount.
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