Problems burning disks using Disk Utility

Hi,
I am trying to burn an disk image onto multiple DVD's. I manage to sucessfully burn to DVD twice on the third burn I get a message telling me that disk verfication is not complete. I am wasting a lot of discs here.
I don't seem to be able to reduce the burn speed (it is set at x4) I have tried turning the mac off and on and it still happens. I had similar problems in iDVD hence why I am using Disk Utility.
Is this a bug, a problem with the burner or a problem with me??

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Thanks Carolym for your response.
Go to System Preferences/Accounts/Login Items. Delete any
applications you have listed.
I did this; there were four applications including the driver update software that self-installed last night. Who knew it was still lurking around after being deleted?
But, after restarting, the problem persists.
Is this a SuperDrive that can also burn to DVD? If
so, read here; http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/
superdrivefw_update2.1.html
Yes, it is.
This page didn't make any sense to me. Were these posts by people installing the update or removing it? That page seems to refer to the update that happened last night, which seems to have started my problems. Can you elaborate on this?
I've replicated this on both my internal drive and an external drive connected by FireWire. I've never had problems with this media before. The alsoft.com site is apparently off-line today.
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Here's a way to get around your problem and burn multiple disks at the same time.
When you format your project, choose the hard drive rather than a superdrive. This will create a disk image of your DVD.
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When one DVD finishes, click Burn again and select the available drive to burn again. You can keep burning in parallel continuously.
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Hi thmayr!
Although the original instructions were for a 700 MB disc, perhaps the article linked to below, could be helpful.
From "Macworld" Feb 2005 issue p.90 Link To Article. Scroll to the second tip on the page: "Unix Tip of the Month: Utilize Extra Space on CD-Rs".
Content:
Create a new folder in the Finder.
Drag everything you want to burn, up to 700 MB, into the folder.
Open Terminal and type cd ~/Desktop
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Max:
Sorry I misunderstood you. Actually you don't move
your iTunes folder at all. Here are a couple of
procedures. Since I have not had to use it I can't
vouch for either, but I have heard both have worked
for others.Just to catalogue the
solutions listed above
Here's what I did, and it worked fine.
1) Move iTunes onto the Desktop.
2) Run Disk Utility
3) Go to HD>Library>Receipts and trash all iTunes
.pkg files EXCEPT for iTunesX.pkg and
iTunesPhoneDriver.pkg
4) empty Trash.
5) move iTune from Desktop back to 'Applications'.
Hey presto. you should now be able to repair
permissions again.
HTH
Kappy’s solution
1. Navigate to the /Library/Receipts/ folder.
2. Locate the iTunes.pkg and iTunesX.pkg files and
move them to the Desktop.
3. Run Disk Utility and repair permissions.
4. Move the .pkg files back into the
/Library/Receipts/ folder.Note that you
are not moving the iTunes folder, but the .pkg files
from the Receipts folder. In the first method you
Trash some of them, in the second you move them back.
But you don't touch the iTunes application as such.
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invalid node structure.
volume check failed.
error: filesystem verify or repair failed.
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Message was edited by: senfo

senfo wrote:
Unfortunatley the verify disc is the only clickable option.
When booted to the install disc and you select the top item on the left side of the DU window?
At least i need to verify the disc to unlock the other options.
Running Verify then allows you to run Repair? Never heard of that, but ok. Run Repair after that.
I have a week or so left of the warranty, so i think i'm going to go ahead and contact apple, hear what they can do about this. If they can't do anything, i'll just buy another HD.
If you're still under warranty, and the HD is the original, and there's no physical damage to the machine, I don't understand why they wouldn't cover it.
And i'll try to save what i can from the HD linking it to a mac as an extern HD. If not, so be it.
This is very important. When you give it to them for repair, that will be the last you ever see of your HD, so saving your data needs to happen before that, or that's something you can ask them to do while you're there in person (they used to charge for HD backups, don't know if they would in this situation).
As scott billings says there is probably nothing i can do other than learn to backup my stuff.
I agree with the "learn" part, but per above, there's lots you can do.
As a graphic design student, i was pretty stupid not doing that in the first place.
No comment needed?
I just pray that the HD is the problem. That's easy replaceable. Since i'm able to start the machine through the install DVD i guess it's not anything wrong with the machine itself, right?
I would agree with your diagnosis, that it's probably just the HD (but as we all know, computers can be good at tricking us).
Did you see my comment on FWTDM in previous post? I'd definitely try that.
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Description: Apple UDIF read-only compressed (zlib)
Connection Bus: Disk Image
Total Capacity: 2 TB
Disk Write Status: Read Only
Partition Map Scheme: No partition map
I then replaced the failing HDD in the enclosure, recreated a new 2TB filesystem on the device, and attempted to restore from the DMG image.
The first attempt was to use Disk Utility "Restore" function. I specified the DMG as the source and the new device as the destination, and chose "Erase Destination". This failed immediately with the error "Restore failure. Could not find any scan information. The source images needs to be imagescanned before it can be restored".
After researching this error I tried to correct it by selecting the DMG in Disk Utility and running Images => Scan Image for Restore. This failed immediately, complaining there was insufficient disk space. More research revealed it needed the same amount of spare space on the same disk to do an imagescan. So I had to free up an EXTRA 1.5TB of space in addition to the space the DMG consumed. Not very user friendly.
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Next I tried to mount the DMG and copy the files manually. My first attempt at this resulted in a "Verifying..." phase which looked like it will take about 10 hours, so I clicked "Skip". Soon after I got an error message "Unable to attach OWC2TB.dmg (no mountable file systems).". Now I am trying a mount with the Verify option...
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Problems with Disk Utility & Mounting DMG!! Help!!

Hey guys, im a fairly inexperienced mac user anyways I recently bought a IBOOK G3 with Tiger 10.4 and i'm having major issues with Disk Utility and installing applications.
The issues with D.I are that it loads up then I get the error message "Disk Utlity started but a background process needed in Disk Utility didn't start properly. Please quit and restart Disk Utility. And when I do restart it, i get the same error over and over.
Also my second problem is whenever I try to and install DMG files I get the error: "Broken Pipe" and sometimes "Device Not Configured"
I've tried searching for resolutions for each problem but they both involve the other functioning! I'm really at a loss, i've tried using programs like pacifist to reinstall my original files etc and they haven't seemed to help.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thank you xxx

Hi Kellie, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc that came with your computer, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5. Select your Mac OS X volume.
6. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
The usual reason why updates fail or mess things up, is if Permissions are not fixed before & after every update, with a reboot... you may get a partial update when the installer finds it doesn't have Permissions to change one obscure little part of the OS, leaving you with a mix of OS versions.
Some people get away without Repairing Permissions for years, some for only days.
If Permissions are wrong before applying an update, you could get mixed OS versions, if Directory is the slightest messed up, who knows!
If many Permission are repaired, or any Directory errors are found, you may need to re-apply some the latest/biggest updates.
May even need to do an Archive and Install if you have room on the HD, but saves all your files and gives a new OS...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
I only use Software Update to see what is needed, then get them for real via...
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/
That way I can wait a week or so, check the forums for potential problems, and get Permissions & such in order before installing.
Report if there were errors please.

Problem with Disk Utility and with ITunes and with Classic

Greetings. I have had problems with ITunes recently; when I try to open it, it gives me the error message: "The ITunes Music Library file is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permission for this file."
When I looked at the ITunes discussion section, people had two ideas for other people who had the same problem:
(1) Make sure that the library of music files is write-enabled (which it is) and not locked (it isn't) and
(2) Go to Disk Utility and repair the disk.
Since (1) is not a problem, I am trying (2). However, when I open Disk Utility, it just stays on the window, stating "Gathering disk information..." and proceeds no further.
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amandel
The problems you report are different than those relating to the iTunes receipts/DU conflict. Trashing those receipts as suggested is necessary to get DU to repair permissions, but, as I understand it, you couldn't get DU to recognise your drives. And I've seen no posts relating to iTunes 6 and Classic.
I've had the problem you describe before (at least vis-a-vis DU). In principle DU's "Repair Disk" function would fix it, but of course if the disk's don't mount in DU then you can't fix them:)
Therefore fsck is a good solution, or trying DU from the Installer Disk (don't start to install, just let the first installer window appear, go to the menu and choose "Open Disk Utility") and repairing. Then reboot and repair permissions, preferably with DU running from your hard drive.
Maybe you're more of a "don't touch what's still running" kind of person, but it sounds to me like the systems a bit wobbly and needs some tender loving care. You could try a clean up using a program like OnyX as well - it won't do any harm.
Robert
G4 PB Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Super laggy, problems with disk utility: ardagent?

my macbook has been laggy i'd say for about a month now -- super SLOW, lots of rainbow waiting mans going on...
cpu: user: 4%, system: 2%, Idle: 98%
right now i'm only running safari and mail and it's uber slow... i don't know what to do. ran disk utility.. here are the results!
120.03 gb internal sata disk: "Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired."
then pressed "repair disk permissions" and it told me:
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
then ran disk permissions on my hd and it said:
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
is this what's making is slow? what should i doooo?
help. PLEASE.

B.Murph wrote:
my macbook has been laggy i'd say for about a month now -- super SLOW, lots of rainbow waiting mans going on...
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
is this what's making is slow? what should i doooo?
No. That's normal. See http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448
You may have a hard drive problem. How full is it? OSX needs considerable room to operate; a rule of thumb is 15% free space.
If that's not it, try running this: [Intel-based Macs: Using Apple Hardware Test|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509].
and/or the (free) Rember, a heavy-duty memory tester, from: http://www.kelleycomputing.net/

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Hi,
iPhoto crashed my computer in a big way and after leaving the rainbow wheel for about an hour, with very sluggish response I kept the power button down and reset (without doing a shutdown).
Unfortunately it has a created a massive problem with my Macbook Pro, in so much that it no longer boots up.
I get the grey screen with the Apple and progress wheel, but then nothing.
I have booted from an external USB hard disk (also 10.6) and ran disk utility.
S.M.A.R.T. reports all ok
Repair disk reports all ok
Repair disk permissions fails with the following error:
Error: Permissions verify or repair failed
I've checked the system.log file and this is the error:
com.apple.DiskManagement.RepairPermissions|2011-09-05 18:15:02 +0100
Sep 5 18:16:38 unknown-c4-2c-03-37-31-6d diskmanagementd[1230]: APICALLBACK_dmAsyncFinishedForDisk_PERM_result dmErr=-9901 detailErr=10
Sep 5 18:16:38 unknown-c4-2c-03-37-31-6d com.apple.ReportCrash.Root[2005]: 2011-09-05 18:16:38.593 ReportCrash[2005:2703] Saved crash report for repair_packages[1996] version ??? (???) to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/repair_packages_2011-09-05-181638_localhost.cra sh
There's other errors in the system.log, but these seem the most pertinent to the problem.
Can anyone please advise on how I repair this, or do I need to buy Disk Warrior and rebuild the directory structure?
Thanks,
GD

Hi,
Thanks for the reply.
Superduper to create a bootable carbon copy and TM for incrementals.
I really don't want to re-install OSX and then recover the components from TM though for several reasons.
Thanks.

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