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From: Ed Anson on 30 May 2010 19:10
I have a sparse image volume on an external (FireWire) drive, that I am
unable to rebuild using DiskWarrior. Whenever I try, the following
happens: 1) I click Rebuild; 2) The volume's icon (in my Finder sidebar)
dims; 3) DiskWarrior hangs and becomes totally unresponsive.

When this happens, I am sometimes (but not always) able to force-quit
DW, but am unable to do anything with the mounted image. In every case,
I have had to force restart the system to regain full control.

I checked the suggestions in the DW manual. It said that can happen if
the disk drive is defective. However, that's not likely in my case, for
the following reasons: 1) The disk drive and the sparse-image volume
work with everything else; 2) Disk Utility was able to make the needed
repair and was happy; 3) The same problem occurs with a separate copy of
the disk image on a different drive. [BTW: Even after repairing the
volume, the DW problem persists.]

Has anyone here experienced anything like that, or otherwise know what
might be happening? Although Disk Utility worked for me this time, it
would be great to be able to use DiskWarrior in the future.

I am running the latest Mac OS X on a recent MacBook Pro 17" and the
latest revision of DiskWarrior (which I downloaded about a week ago).

TIA for any suggestions.

Ed
From: Kevin McMurtrie on 30 May 2010 23:05
Yeah, it's buggy. Version 4.2 skips stages that are most likely to
crash but it's still not reliable. It also can't handle disk images
larger than a couple TB because it runs out of memory. Use Disk Utility
when you can.



In article <Nt-dnaFWOrj6bZ_RnZ2dnUVZ_o-dnZ2d(a)giganews.com>,
Ed Anson <EdAnson(a)comcast.net> wrote:

> I have a sparse image volume on an external (FireWire) drive, that I am
> unable to rebuild using DiskWarrior. Whenever I try, the following
> happens: 1) I click Rebuild; 2) The volume's icon (in my Finder sidebar)
> dims; 3) DiskWarrior hangs and becomes totally unresponsive.
>
> When this happens, I am sometimes (but not always) able to force-quit
> DW, but am unable to do anything with the mounted image. In every case,
> I have had to force restart the system to regain full control.
>
> I checked the suggestions in the DW manual. It said that can happen if
> the disk drive is defective. However, that's not likely in my case, for
> the following reasons: 1) The disk drive and the sparse-image volume
> work with everything else; 2) Disk Utility was able to make the needed
> repair and was happy; 3) The same problem occurs with a separate copy of
> the disk image on a different drive. [BTW: Even after repairing the
> volume, the DW problem persists.]
>
> Has anyone here experienced anything like that, or otherwise know what
> might be happening? Although Disk Utility worked for me this time, it
> would be great to be able to use DiskWarrior in the future.
>
> I am running the latest Mac OS X on a recent MacBook Pro 17" and the
> latest revision of DiskWarrior (which I downloaded about a week ago).
>
> TIA for any suggestions.
>
> Ed
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From: The Wolf on 31 May 2010 10:14
On 5/30/10 8:05 PM, in article 4c03275e$0$22100$742ec2ed(a)news.sonic.net,
"Kevin McMurtrie" <mcmurtrie(a)pixelmemory.us> wrote:

> Yeah, it's buggy. Version 4.2 skips stages that are most likely to
> crash but it's still not reliable. It also can't handle disk images
> larger than a couple TB because it runs out of memory. Use Disk Utility
> when you can.
>
>
>
> In article <Nt-dnaFWOrj6bZ_RnZ2dnUVZ_o-dnZ2d(a)giganews.com>,
> Ed Anson <EdAnson(a)comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> I have a sparse image volume on an external (FireWire) drive, that I am
>> unable to rebuild using DiskWarrior. Whenever I try, the following
>> happens: 1) I click Rebuild; 2) The volume's icon (in my Finder sidebar)
>> dims; 3) DiskWarrior hangs and becomes totally unresponsive.
>>
>> When this happens, I am sometimes (but not always) able to force-quit
>> DW, but am unable to do anything with the mounted image. In every case,
>> I have had to force restart the system to regain full control.
>>
>> I checked the suggestions in the DW manual. It said that can happen if
>> the disk drive is defective. However, that's not likely in my case, for
>> the following reasons: 1) The disk drive and the sparse-image volume
>> work with everything else; 2) Disk Utility was able to make the needed
>> repair and was happy; 3) The same problem occurs with a separate copy of
>> the disk image on a different drive. [BTW: Even after repairing the
>> volume, the DW problem persists.]
>>
>> Has anyone here experienced anything like that, or otherwise know what
>> might be happening? Although Disk Utility worked for me this time, it
>> would be great to be able to use DiskWarrior in the future.
>>
>> I am running the latest Mac OS X on a recent MacBook Pro 17" and the
>> latest revision of DiskWarrior (which I downloaded about a week ago).
>>
>> TIA for any suggestions.
>>
>> Ed
I prefer Drive Genius.

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