Hey folks, I've been having a problem for the last two months which appears to be getting worse:
Mount an external drive. Close the lid to put the machine to sleep. Case 1: Open the lid almost immediately (as in oops! I forgot) Problem: the external drives often will not appear. Usual solution: Open Disk Utility, see that the disks are there, but their partition (s) are grayed out. Eject the offending (volumes). Reattach. Yesterday's problem: Open Disk Utility. Sits there doing nothing. Spinning Beachball. Open Terminal. Type cd /Volumes ... Nothing happens, as in command is never completed. Try to open another terminal window ... Spinning Beachball Try to go to the Finder ... Spinning Beachball Case 2: Open lid some time later, like the next morning. Problem: same as above, though I've never gotten the Disk Utility failing problem. Sometimes, the Finder hangs completely, when going through this circus, and relaunching causes it to semi-quit. The only solution seems to be to force shut down the computer. Sometimes the filesystem seems to go blooey, where applications all stop responding where (I'm guessing now) they cannot find any of their files. I've used Disk Utility from the Install DVD to check the drive, and it claims all is good. Does anyone have a hint for what I should be doing to avoid this headache? A person on the Apple Discussions suggests wiping the disk clean and reinstalling. This sounds less than appealing, but I suppose it could be done if I really had to. Bill -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2413 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20070609/dfa9b4a8/attachment.bin
