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With a G-Drive Slim I get this message when trying to set up the disk for use with Time Machine and disk encryption. I tried Erasing the disk and it did not help. Time Machine seems to want a different partition layout on the drive. I notice people are having the same problem with other drives.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)
I know you suspect this already for the WD 3T:
Total Size: 3.0 TB (3000214966272 Bytes) (exactly 5859794856 512-Byte-Blocks)
Volume Free Space: 3.0 TB (2999207600128 Bytes) (exactly 5857827344 512-Byte-Blocks)
Device Block Size: 4096 Bytes
I filed an Apple bug for this and received the following reply:
"After further investigation it has been determined that this is a known issue, which is currently being investigated by engineering. This issue has been filed in our bug database under the original Bug ID# 9871409. The original bug number being used to track this duplicate issue can be found in the Related Problem section of your bug report's Problem Detail view."
TrueCrypt seems to be working if you don't encrypt the drive per se but create a 'file'. I am formatting a 2 Gig file rith now. It will take 20 hours to do. Hope it doesn't take that long to mount.😐
Is this Bug fixed in 10.7.2 ?
Ian
No
I just tried with a USB 3.0 2To Prestige Iomega
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No, i tried the 10.7.2 version and gets the same error for WD 3TB. its not fixed
As this wasn't fixed in 10.7.2, it might help if more folks report this as a problem. It takes about 30 sec.... squeaky iwheel and all.
OK, I just did it.
I also have the same problem with a WD 3 TB. I've added my problem to:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
Hopefully we'll get a fix soon. With all the iTunes TV and movies I've got, I can't see using anything smaller (hint, hint Apple!)
Thanks for this thread! Saved me hours of poking at my drive!
Add to this my Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk 4TB External (STAC4000100) connected to MacBook Pro via Firewire 800.
Same exact issue with WD 3TB
Anyone know if this was resolved with 10.7.2?
I have 3 new 3TB WD External USB Drives and I can't use them at the moment, just formatted with TrueCrypt NTFS for now and using a windows file server to just get by but I want to decommissoion that machine and use the drivers directly with iMac and Macbook Pros
Thanks.
This was not fixed in 10.7.2.
D'oh I just picked up a WD 3TB Essentials to use as an encrypted disk... Very disappointed, now this lovely piece of hardware is going to sit around gathering dust until Disk Utility is fixed - I just don't have enough spare disk to fill it up, then migrate off again to encrypt, then put the data back on.
Submitted a feedback ticket, has anyone heard from Apple if this will be fixed anytime soon?
*sigh*
Keep in mind that i think there is a work around here.
key word here is THINK...
i just never bothered trying it because i was lazy but u can partition the 3TB into smaller 1 TB or 500 GIG chunks and then encrypt each one of those partitions. but i just dont need 6 disks ... much rather have just 1 giant 3 TB one.
So i just am using it on a windows 7 system with true crypt.
and god i hate using that system. but no choice at the moment until this gets fixed.
filevault 2 "Unable to create boot loader partition due to the specifics of your partition map layout."
