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I dug out a FireWire cable, plugged it in, and all was golden. Cannot allocate memory.” Thank you so very much for such clear and comprehensible error messages, Apple.Īfter 45 minutes of Googling and grumbling, I finally realized that the Iomega enclosure had both FireWire 400 and USB 2 interfaces. “Well,” thought I, “let’s try formatting with Snow Leopard’s version of Disk Utility.” It was infinitely helpful, providing a dialog that read: “Disk Erase failed with the error: POSIX reports: The operation couldn’t be completed. Apple has no advice on the topic in its massive KnowledgeBase, either.

Lynn’s MacBook is still running Leopard, and despite trying many, many pieces of advice scattered across the Internet, Disk Utility continually told me, “Disk erase failed: input/output error.” How useful. Of course, this is when Disk Utility told me it couldn’t format an external Iomega 300 GB drive I had brought home from the office for the backup task. Finally the kids passed out, and I moved on to backing up Lynn’s hard drive with SuperDuper the battery-charging circuitry was failing again in her MacBook despite an Apple fix, and she needed to take it into the Genius Bar again. I was already tired, and then my generally lovely boys gave me a hard time bathing and getting to bed while my wife, Lynn, was out. #1644: Explaining Mastodon and the Fediverse, HomePod Software 16.3 and tvOS 16.3, GoTo breach.#1645: AirPlay iPhone to Mac for remote video, Siri learns to restart iPhones, Apple's Q1 2023 financials.1646: Security-focused OS updates, Photos Workbench review, Mastodon client wishlist, Apple-related conferences.