Time Machine oddities

[Charles Dyer]

On 04 Nov 2007, at 02:02:10, LuKreme wrote:

> On 3-Nov-2007, at 19:20, Charles Dyer wrote:
>> Time Machine was detecting the _empty_ DVD drive. There was nothing  
>> in it, but TM thought that there was something there which was  
>> formatted HFS+ case-sensitive... but whatever it was didn't show up  
>> on any list of volumes to be backed up or excluded or anything,  
>> which is logical as there wasn't anything there.
>
>
> This sounds like an issue with the Firewire chip in that case,  
> actually.  It was likely reporting itself as a Hard Drive, and TM  
> was confused about it.

Unlikely. Toast, Disk Utility, the Finder and a host of other apps  
over the years have all correctly identified it as a DVD running on an  
external FireWire box. TM would be the only app to make that error.  
And if it IDed as a hard drive, it should show in the TM exclude list.  
It didn't.

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>
> Most FW cases, especially older ones, did funky thinks with optical  
> drives.
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