Disk Utility buggy?

When I start Disk Utility (on Leopard), I get the following worrying messages:
<pre>EBMacPro:Contents eboily$ MacOS/Disk\ Utility
2007-11-03 09:52:33.655 Disk Utility[7896:10b] Error loading /Users/eboily/Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundle/Conte nts/MacOS/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin: dlopen(/Users/eboily/Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundl e/Contents/MacOS/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Users/eboily/Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundle/Conte nts/MacOS/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin: mach-o, but wrong architecture
2007-11-03 09:52:33.656 Disk Utility[7896:10b] Cannot find function pointer MacDiskImagePluginFactory for factory 4D08F98C-8968-11D6-8667-0003933E9206 in CFBundle/CFPlugIn 0x54ab60 </Users/eboily/Library/Plug-ins/DiskImages/VirtualPCDiskImagePlugin.bundle> (bundle, not loaded)
2007-11-03 09:52:33.664 Disk Utility[7896:10b] ********
2007-11-03 09:52:33.672 Disk Utility[7896:10b] Disk Utility started.
2007-11-03 09:52:33.851 Disk Utility[7896:10b] * CFMessagePort: bootstrap_register(): failed 1100 (0x44c) 'Permission denied', port = 0x6303, name = 'com.apple.DiskUtility.ServiceProvider'
See /usr/include/servers/bootstrap_defs.h for the error codes.</pre>
Then I select the option to write zeros on the disk, MacOS Extended Journaled and I launch the erase option:
<pre>2007-11-03 09:58:23.121 Disk Utility[7896:10b] Preparing to zero disk : âdisk2s1â
2007-11-03 09:58:23.122 Disk Utility[7896:10b] Passes : 0</pre>
I then hit skip (Read about my 9-hours long experience without skipping here), I get
<pre>2007-11-03 09:59:05.813 Disk Utility[7896:10b] Secure Erase skipped after calculatingâ¦.
0.0% complete.
2007-11-03 09:59:05.840 Disk Utility[7896:10b] Preparing to erase : âdisk2s1â
2007-11-03 09:59:05.840 Disk Utility[7896:10b] Partition Scheme: Master Boot Record
2007-11-03 09:59:05.841 Disk Utility[7896:10b] 1 volume will be erased
2007-11-03 09:59:05.841 Disk Utility[7896:10b] Name : âdisk2s1â
2007-11-03 09:59:05.842 Disk Utility[7896:10b] Size : 931,5 GB
2007-11-03 09:59:05.842 Disk Utility[7896:10b] Filesystem : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
2007-11-03 09:59:05.868 Disk Utility[7896:10b] newfs_hfs: /dev/rdisk2s1: partition size not a multiple of 4K.
2007-11-03 09:59:05.875 DiskManagementTool[7897:10b] * Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSRangeException', reason: '[NOTE: this exception originated in the server.]
[NOTE: this exception originated in the server.]
[NOTE: this exception originated in the server.]
* -[NSCFString substringToIndex:]: Range or index out of bounds'
2007-11-03 09:59:05.877 DiskManagementTool[7897:10b] Stack: (
2498351723,
2516496539,
2498350481,
2487175270,
2487173129,
2498374346,
2498374450,
166599,
165830,
152358,
2487166563,
2497854334,
2497854776,
2487166389,
2487215828,
66120,
11390
2007-11-03 09:59:06.513 Disk Utility[7896:6377] DiskManagementTool has died. Disk Utility will need to be restarted.</pre>
Houston, we have a problem...
This happens on a very recent MacPro with plenty of memory, and the external hard drive is a My Book 1TB from Western Digital. Tried both interfaces, firewire or USB2 - same problem.
Apple, any idea? Will I be able to use my hard drive for time machine?
- Edouard

HL-DT-ST DVDRW GSA-S10N:
Firmware Revision: AP09
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media:
Type: DVD+R DL
ID: RITEK D01
Blank: Yes
Erasable: No
Overwritable: Yes
Appendable: Yes
Write Speeds: 2.4x
Disk Utility: Burn started, Mon Jan 28 19:53:05 2008
Disk Utility: Burning to DVD+R DL (RITEK D01) media with DAO strategy in HL-DT-ST DVDRW GSA-S10N AP09 via ATAPI.
Disk Utility: Requested burn speed was 47x, actual burn speed is 2.4x.
Disk Utility: Burn failed, Mon Jan 28 19:53:36 2008
Disk Utility: Burn sense: 3/0C/00 Medium Error, Write error
Disk Utility: Burn error: 0x8002006E The burn failed because of a medium write error.
Disk Utility: DVDRW GSA-S10N: SCSITask 86320.265625 CDB: Start/Stop Unit/Eject Media failed with service response = 1 (SERVICEDELIVERY_OR_TARGETFAILURE), status = 1 (TaskTimeoutOccurred)
Disk Utility: Retry #1
I am having this problem as well. Is there any way to get it resolved? This is a MacBook Pro 2.4 Ghz with a Santa Rosa chipset. I burned a DVD successfully almost a month ago:
Disk Utility: Burn started, Mon Dec 24 14:58:03 2007
Disk Utility: Burning to DVD+R DL (RITEK D01) media with DAO strategy in HL-DT-ST DVDRW GSA-S10N AP09 via ATAPI.
Disk Utility: Requested burn speed was 47x, actual burn speed is 2.4x.
Disk Utility: Burn finished, Mon Dec 24 15:39:16 2007
Disk Utility: Verify started, Mon Dec 24 15:39:16 2007
Disk Utility: Verify finished, Mon Dec 24 16:01:17 2007
Disk Utility: Burn started, Tue Dec 25 16:27:39 2007
Which is the same type of DL DVD. I am using Sony DL discs.

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jimumbra wrote:
Hello,
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Look and see if you have any third party addons that need updating, or applications that run at login (you can find them in System Preferences, Accounts, login items) and disable them. See if that helps.
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Version of Disk Utility

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installed the version of OS X you are currently
running. If you are running Tiger then you should be
using the version of DU that was installed by the
Tiger installer.
Any updates for DU would be made by an OS X updater
for the OS X you are using. For Tiger these would
be 10.4.1 through 10.4.10. The current Tiger version
of DU is 10.5.8. If would be safe to use on any
Tiger system.
I would suggest you not rely on Spring Cleaning. It
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unreliable. The best commercial tools to have are:
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TechTool Pro
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For disk repairs use Disk Utility. For situations DU cannot
handle the best third-party utilities are: Disk Warrior; DW
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Disk Warrior 4.0 is now Intel Mac compatible. TechTool Pro
provides additional repair options including file
repair and recovery, system diagnostics, and disk
defragmentation. TechTool Pro 4.5.2 is Intel Mac
compatible; Drive Genius is
similar to TechTool Pro in terms of the various
repair services provided. The current version,
1.5.1, is Intel Mac compatible.
OS X performs certain maintenance functions that are
scheduled to occur on a daily, weekly, or monthly
period. The maintenance scripts run in the early AM
only if the computer is turned on 24/7 (no sleep.) If
this isn't the case, then an excellent solution is to
download and install a shareware utility such as Macaroni, JAW
PseudoAnacron, or Ana
cron that will automate the maintenance activity
regardless of whether the computer is turned off or
asleep.
OS X automatically defrags files less than 20 MBs in
size, so unless you have a disk full of very large
files there's little need for defragmenting the hard
drive. As for virus protection there are few if any
such animals affecting OS X. You can protect the
computer easily using the freeware Open Source virus
protection software ClamXAV
. Personally I would avoid most commercial anti-virus
software because of their potential for causing
problems.
I would also recommend downloading the shareware
utility TinkerTool
System that you can use for periodic maintenance
such as removing old logfiles and archives, clearing
caches, etc.
For emergency repairs install the freeware utility Applejack
. If you cannot start up in OS X, you may be able to
start in single-user mode from which you can run
Applejack to do a whole set of repair and maintenance
routines from the commandline.
When you install any new system software or updates
be sure to repair the hard drive and permissions
beforehand. I also recommend booting into safe mode before doing system software
updates.
Get an external Firewire drive at least equal in size
to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a
bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone
using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can
also make and maintain clones with good backup
software. My personal recommendations are (order is
not significant):
1. Retrospect
Desktop (Commercial - not yet universal binary)
2. Synchronize! Pro
X (Commercial)
3. Synk
(Backup, Standard, or Pro)
4. Deja
Vu (Shareware)
5. PsynchX
2.1.1 and RsyncX 2.1 (Freeware)
6. Carbon
Copy Cloner (Freeware - 3.0 is a Universal
Binary)
7. SuperDuper!
(Commercial)
The following utilities can also be used for backup,
but cannot create bootable clones:
1. Backup (requires a .Mac account with
Apple both to get the software and to use it.)
2. Toast
3. Impression
4. arRSync
Apple's Backup is a full backup tool capable of also
backing up across multiple media such as CD/DVD.
However, it cannot create bootable backups. It is
primarily an "archiving" utility as are the other
two.
Impression and Toast are disk image based backups,
only. Particularly useful if you need to backup to
CD/DVD across multiple media.
Visit The XLab
FAQs and read the FAQs on maintenance,
optimization, virus protection, and backup and
restore.
Additional suggestions will be found in Mac Maintenance Quick Assist.
Referenced software can be found at
www.versiontracker.com and www.macupdate.com.
Very Helpful!
Thanks for the NFO.
One Follow up: Best way back to DU 10.5.8?
a) drop in a copy from my clone drive?
b) Reinstall Tiger {Archive Option} and perform succesive updates?
Spring Cleaning is one of those utilities I try about every 3 years to see if it got any better Thanks for the confidence boost in my old standby: TechTool

Disk Utility Error - Leopard Specific

Is anyone else having errors pop up with Disk Utility? I have received three different errors in Disk Utility (all when run within the Mac OS X Installer DVD versions 10.5.0 and 10.5.1) when I am trying to format my drive before running the install process. This happens both during normal erase and zero disk. The errors are along the lines of:
- Zero disk failed
- Unable to open disk
- Resource busy
This, I believe, may be specific to Leopard, but I am not sure. My Disk Utility with my 10.4.x restore DVDs started acting weird yesterday too, but in a different manner.
Just curious if others have seen these errors before?

My memory of Nov '07 and 10.5.0 release was that there were messages about errors like these at the time.
Can't you boot from another drive and try from there, after updating to 10.5.2+?
Or it could be the disk drive has a bad sector in the first or last 100 blocks which have to be checked to write some hidden partitions and tables.
What I do is Partition tab, then revert to one or more partitions, insure it is GUID option, than click "Apply."
People use format or initialize but with a new OS I re-partition.
Then if there could be errors, there are a couple options for finding and mapping out bad blocks, some better than others.
But it seemed that just mounting drives was buggy with 10.5.0 DVD for some.

Blocksize error during Disk Utility encryption reformatting

So I was erasing-and-reformatting an external hard drive so that I could encrypt it (it's through Disk Utility, so I suppose that means FileVault, right?), when I get the attached error. It sounds like it's either some kind of internal incompatability within the encryption or a buggy version of the encryption algoritm or something, because padding? But... that's really unlikely, of course. Thoughts? Has anyone seen this before?
Thanks! : )

Update: I called Western Digital and they say this error is caused when one of the sectors of the hard drive is damaged in some manner (they didn't elaborate, but I assume it's some sort of physical corruption). So, if you have the same error, chances are you'll need to replace the drive.

IPod not recognized by iTunes & Disk Utility - Recognized by System Profile

I have a 40GB iPod Clickwheel (4th Gen?) that i'm trying to fix back to life since my mini was just stolen and i'm out on the road on tour all the time. my iPod actually powers up by itself just fine, the battery life is just peachy, and it can run independently without songs (i'm able to look around just as though i had songs on there - i can play games, alter settings, etc etc.).
However, there's a few things i've noticed!
When i go to the iPod's about menu (when disconnected from the computer), it shows there's no songs, that there's 0 capacity, 0 available - shows that the version is 3.1.1, the serial and model numbers, but the format is unknown.
I've tried plugging the dang thing into my computer to much avail - IF iTunes recognizes it, it says it needs to be restored -- GREAT! so i try to restore the iPod, however, i almost instantly get an error: The iPod cannot be restored because it is currently busy. When i clicked the help tag, it says it's a common problem in iTunes 7.0 - great, i have 8.0.2; and i've tried running everything from a restart on the ipod to a restart on the computer, updating all my system files, running the iPod in disk mode, etc, but nothing seems to make it want to restore.
when i look in system profiler; it shows that the iPod is hooked up to my USB port (which is just fine, and i've never had problems running a click-wheel iPod through that before); however both Disk Utility and iTunes do not acknowledge it's existence. what gives?
is my iPod a goner? how would i go about restoring this so i can use it? I've tried it on my Power PC (Specs below) as well as trying it on an iBook and iMac; with the same results every time. i know it's not the cable, because the iPod actually charged via that cable last night!
any help!?

If you can get it to show up in Disk Utility, try reformatting (erasing) it in Disk Utility. If that process completes without stalling or errors, quit Disk Utility and run iTunes. Immediately attempt to do another Restore to install the iPod's software and initialize.
If the iPod does not erase successfully (it should take less than one minute for a standard erase) in Disk Utility, the iPod's hard drive may be faulty.

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