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From: MacFan on 25 Jun 2008 11:34
I am using a iOmega USB drive that was recommended and sold by Apple
for my Time Machine backup drive. Every time I go to Time Machind and
revert to an older date the program freezes and then I get a device
removal error. I have to shut off the drive and restart it. But that
only allows me to look at one past date before it freezes again.

Anyone Know about this problem??

Thanks

Ron
From: Tom Harrington on 25 Jun 2008 12:50
In article <250620081134109062%t2allat(a)hotmail.dotcom>,
MacFan <t2allat(a)hotmail.dotcom> wrote:

> I am using a iOmega USB drive that was recommended and sold by Apple
> for my Time Machine backup drive. Every time I go to Time Machind and
> revert to an older date the program freezes and then I get a device
> removal error. I have to shut off the drive and restart it. But that
> only allows me to look at one past date before it freezes again.
>
> Anyone Know about this problem??

Sounds like a bad and/or improperly seated USB cable to me. If you have
another cable handy I'd try that.

--
Tom "Tom" Harrington
Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002
http://www.atomicbird.com/
From: Simon Slavin on 27 Jun 2008 15:48
On 25/06/2008, MacFan wrote in message
<250620081134109062%t2allat(a)hotmail.dotcom>:

> Every time I go to Time Machind and
> revert to an older date the program freezes and then I get a device
> removal error. I have to shut off the drive and restart it.

I suspect your USB device chain has a problem. First check all cables as
Tom said. Then unplug all non-Apple USB devices and try it. If you're
using non-Apple keyboards or mice, switch back to the Apple ones. If that
doesn't help, unplug as many USB devices including the Apple ones as you
can and try it.

Then check the use of the drive on another Mac -- by taking it to an AppleStore if convenient.

Simon.
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http://www.hearsay.demon.co.uk
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