Re: xCode causes usb drive troubles
Re: xCode causes usb drive troubles
- Subject: Re: xCode causes usb drive troubles
- From: Russell McGaha <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:51:22 -0500
Gary, et al.;
Sorry forgot to mention that a Nook is an ereader from B&N. Most of the other Mac's I have access to are 10.5.x, there are two that are 10.6.x, both are WITHOUT Xcode installed; and on ALL of the other Mac's the drive mounts properly. The Nook OS expects the 'drive' to be FAT32 formatted, you attach the device to your computer to put ebooks and other data on it [music, wallpapers, .. ect. .
As I said after a LOT of trouble I had the device mounting correctly; TILL I re-installed Xcode. Stock 10.6.4 mounts it with no problem, install Xcode, no longer mounts!
Russell
On Jul 19, 2010, at 4:21 PM, M Pulis wrote:
> Did not know what a nook was, I have a breakfast nook..... - but I do know as a rule, I never ever use a FAT-32 device on OSX for any other purpose than to move files to a PC. I teach my users to reformat any new drive from any manufacturer for use by MacOS. And USB-only drives are so slow I won't buy one much less use it to boot.... but that's just me.
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> Are all your Macs on 10.6.4? FAT-32 was not designed for the Mac OS and the Mac OS was not designed to use FAT-32 as its base file system.
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> Why not simply format the drive with the appropriate MacOS settings and be done already? Click "Initialize".
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> I do not think Xcode (not xCode, by the way) has the problem. It is accessing the drive through the OSX file system. Mounting is only one aspect of file system access.
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> Gary
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> On Jul 19, 2010, at 12:50 PM, Russell McGaha wrote:
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>> Folks;
>> I've got a problem that after A LOT of work I've isolated to xcode 3.2.1/3.2.2. .
>> I recently bought a nook. All Mac's I have access to EXCEPT my laptop (2.16Ghz Core 2 Duo, 2Gb ram, 10.6.4) would mount the nook 'properly' but the laptop would give me the 'This drive isn't readable by this Mac .... initialize, or eject' dialog. After trying to do 'new style' archive and install, I still had the problem. I then tried an CLEAN install on an external drive and had no problems mounting the drive. After some more trial and error discover that the problem followed using Migration Assistant to move my Applications to the 'new' system. After another archive & install, I MANUALLY moved my applications over [finder copy], I again had no problems mounting the drive. I had to re-install xCode to do my once-every-so-often compile of mozilla and with that re-install the problem returned and after the 3.2.2 upgrade is still present.
>> ANYONE have ANY idea why this is so; or how I can get the nook [a fat32 formatted usb drive] to mount again??
>>
>> Russell
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