On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:33:55 -0700, John Stiles <email@hidden>
wrote:
> Sure enough. I reformatted the drive a second time and enabled "zero
> blocks"; now everything works perfectly. Strangely, just a plain
> reformat didn't seem to cut it :( I never would have guessed. Thanks
> for the tip!
Did you ever run Disk Utilities "Verify" or "Repair" routines on the drive?
It sounds like you may have had an orphaned (lost it's parent directory)
directory or file. Repair would have found & fixed this and recovered the
missing 300M (or file).
> From now on, I'll always use "zero blocks" when formatting!
I wouldn't. A 300 GByte drive could take hours! ;-)
--
Enjoy,
George Warner,
Schizophrenic Optimization Scientist
Apple Developer Technical Support (DTS)
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