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Originally Posted by dnanian
You also have an *awful lot* of USB devices attached. Maybe try disconnect everything you can, and plugging the drive - and only the drive - directly into the Mac?
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But I *need* my USB devices.
The SimpleTech drive actually came with two cables. One was a plain old USB cable and the other was kind of a Y-cable where one of the jacks was not for data, but to simply draw another 500mA from the bus. It's possible, I suppose, that since I have devices on all four ports on the Mini, that the port the drive is to cannot supply enough current. But the power supply (optional) plugged into the drive is supposed to take care of that.
I'll try unplugging the other devices.
But I think I'm still going to get another case, probably another MacAlly. Afterall, it's a known fact that stuff works better when it matches.
As for the earlier freeze, there may be another app (
Statoo) coming into play. I didn't mention my second backup attempt before. That one didn't freeze, but because it was moving so slowly, I figured it had hung. So I stopped the backup, and then I got the warning about how stopping might leave my destination disk in an unknown state. So I ran Disk Utility (Repair) on the destination disk. After a few moments, Disk Utitlity reported that it had encountered a problem and couldn't continue, then it hung with the eternal beachball. I had to Force Quit Disk Utility, and then I figured I'd better restart.
A minute or two later, restarting timed out because Statoo would not quit. One of the features of Statoo I am using is realtime display of disk usage. I'm guessing that Statoo got confused about the destination disk when I quit SD! in the middle of its backup process.
Anyway, for my third and successful backup attempt, I played it safe and quit everything.