New Mac Pro problem
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From: Michael H. Phillips on 28 May 2010 07:06 New Mac Pro, Snow Leopard up to date. Every so often the Finder hangs and I can't restart from the Apple Menu. This seems to happen when Time Machine is doing its thing. I have one internal drive as a dedicated Time Machine drive. It's formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journalled), GUID partition. Any suggestions as to how I should tackle this? -- Michael mhphillips at gmail dot com
From: iballooka on 28 May 2010 07:15 On 2010-05-28 12:06:40 +0100, Michael H. Phillips <mhp(a)odtaa.invalid> said: > New Mac Pro, Snow Leopard up to date. > > Every so often the Finder hangs and I can't restart from the Apple Menu. This > seems to happen when Time Machine is doing its thing. > > I have one internal drive as a dedicated Time Machine drive. It's formatted > as Mac OS Extended (Journalled), GUID partition. > > Any suggestions as to how I should tackle this? I found similar issues, moved time machine to a firewire drive now works flawlessy no problems... It does ask are you sure you want to use a drive within the machine I ignored this firewire drives full and I did this once and the backup failed to restore... Hope this helps... -- Mike Peace and Happiness is a State of Mind....
From: Michael H. Phillips on 28 May 2010 08:06 On Fri, 28 May 2010 12:15:12 +0100, iballooka wrote: > I found similar issues, moved time machine to a firewire drive now > works flawlessy no problems... That's not good. I had no such problem with the G5, Leopard and an internal Time Machine drive. In Energy Saver I've ordered the hard drives to not spin down. I wonder will that make a difference. There are similar problems reported on Mac Forums but they seem to refer to SCSI drives. -- Michael mhphillips at gmail dot com
From: iballooka on 30 May 2010 08:49 On 2010-05-28 13:06:35 +0100, Michael H. Phillips <mhp(a)odtaa.invalid> said: > On Fri, 28 May 2010 12:15:12 +0100, iballooka wrote: > >> I found similar issues, moved time machine to a firewire drive now >> works flawlessy no problems... > > That's not good. I had no such problem with the G5, Leopard and an internal > Time Machine drive. In Energy Saver I've ordered the hard drives to not spin > down. I wonder will that make a difference. > > There are similar problems reported on Mac Forums but they seem to refer to > SCSI drives. The choice is yours to make, I know of none who uses SCSI Drives and in the various colleges I work within some having in excess of 200 Plus Macs none have SCSI drives, so cannot comment... If Timemachine asks are you sure you want use a drive in then computer then there is reason for this and if you opt to restore from this drive there can possibly be an issue... If you value work, then take he best well used route to protect your work and go down an external drive of a reputable make, I am certain that the vast majority of board members take this route and in doing so have found it to be life saver... -- Mike Peace and Happiness is a State of Mind....
From: Michael H. Phillips on 31 May 2010 03:37 On Fri, 28 May 2010 13:06:35 +0100, I wrote: > In Energy Saver I've ordered the hard drives to not spin > down. I wonder will that make a difference. That seems to have done the trick. -- Michael mhphillips at gmail dot com
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