My 2nd drive - seriously bad issue I think

[onetimeking]

Hey there,

I have 2 ssd drives installed in my macbook pro (lion). The drive in the formerly superdrive spot seems to have some strange problems.

When i try to delete a file:

"The operation can’t be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -50)."

When i try to rename a file or the drive:

"Try using a name with fewer characters, or with no punctuation marks."

When i try to format:

"could not be unmounted"

Using disk utility -

Verify permissions has no issues.
Verify drive has no issues.

Using disk utility from the Lion bootable disk image yields the same results.

Worse part is...
This has happened with 2 different drives - so I am starting to think it is an issue with the SATA connection

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Any advice, thoughts, comments, suggestions, opinions or even better - solutions, are greatly appreciated at this point. I really don't know what to do.

Thanks in advance to anyone.

EDIT: Just wanted to mention that this was working totally fine in the past - not sure that this started at the same time as I installed Lion, but it could have been. Maybe there is something new built into Lion in an attempt to get revenge for people installing 2nd drives in their macs?

 

[onetimeking]

After a bit of reading, i've come across some posts mentioning I should try looking for process on that drive being run.

Well in this case, I do actually have another Lion install on the drive which apparently osx is finding.

running lsof | grep "Second Drive" from the terminal yields

kextd 10 root 5r REG 14,3 2623 70975244 /Volumes/Second Drive/usr/standalone/bootcaches.plist
notifyd 12 root 45r DIR 14,3 1326 2 /Volumes/Second Drive
notifyd 12 root 46r DIR 14,3 136 70940580 /Volumes/Second Drive/System
notifyd 12 root 47r DIR 14,3 2448 70940581 /Volumes/Second Drive/System/Library
notifyd 12 root 48r DIR 14,3 8160 70940647 /Volumes/Second Drive/System/Library/Extensions
notifyd 12 root 49r REG 14,3 15565140 70951179 /Volumes/Second Drive/mach_kernel
notifyd 12 root 50r DIR 14,3 7242 70940603 /Volumes/Second Drive/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks
notifyd 12 root 51r DIR 14,3 170 70949476 /Volumes/Second Drive/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/EFILogin.framework
notifyd 12 root 52r 0012 14,3 26 70969408 /Volumes/Second Drive/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/EFILogin.framework/Resources
notifyd 12 root 53r DIR 14,3 986 70949482 /Volumes/Second Drive/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/EFILogin.framework/Versions/A/Resources
notifyd 12 root 54r DIR 14,3 102 70949483 /Volumes/Second Drive/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/EFILogin.framework/Versions/A/Resources/EFIResourceBuilder.bundle
notifyd 12 root 55r DIR 14,3 238 70949484 /Volumes/Second Drive/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/EFILogin.framework/Versions/A/Resources/EFIResourceBuilder.bundle/Contents
notifyd 12 root 56r DIR 14,3 2380 70949487 /Volumes/Second Drive/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/EFILogin.framework/Versions/A/Resources/EFIResourceBuilder.bundle/Contents/Resources
notifyd 12 root 57r DIR 14,3 2244 70940683 /Volumes/Second Drive/Library
notifyd 12 root 58r DIR 14,3 2074 70940684 /Volumes/Second Drive/Library/Preferences
notifyd 12 root 59r DIR 14,3 476 70942394 /Volumes/Second Drive/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration
notifyd 12 root 60r REG 14,3 232 101706 /Volumes/Second Drive/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist
notifyd 12 root 61r DIR 14,3 408 70949630 /Volumes/Second Drive/System/Library/Caches
notifyd 12 root 62r DIR 14,3 102 71221180 /Volumes/Second Drive/System/Library/Caches/com.apple.corestorage
notifyd 12 root 63r DIR 14,3 374 70940583 /Volumes/Second Drive/usr
notifyd 12 root 64r DIR 14,3 136 70943924 /Volumes/Second Drive/usr/standalone
notifyd 12 root 66r DIR 14,3 170 70943925 /Volumes/Second Drive/usr/standalone/i386
notifyd 12 root 67r DIR 14,3 408 70949494 /Volumes/Second Drive/usr/standalone/i386/EfiLoginUI
notifyd 12 root 68r DIR 14,3 306 72809703 /Volumes/Second Drive/System/Library/Caches/com.apple.corestorage/EFILoginLocalizations
notifyd 12 root 69r DIR 14,3 136 70949631 /Volumes/Second Drive/System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches
notifyd 12 root 70r DIR 14,3 238 70949636 /Volumes/Second Drive/System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup
notifyd 12 root 71r REG 14,3 26084421 72799937 /Volumes/Second Drive/System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/kernelcache
notifyd 12 root 72r DIR 14,3 4182 70940594 /Volumes/Second Drive/System/Library/CoreServices
notifyd 12 root 73r REG 14,3 858800 71221179 /Volumes/Second Drive/System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi
notifyd 12 root 74r REG 14,3 475 70956836 /Volumes/Second Drive/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist
notifyd 12 root 75r REG 14,3 2245 71003313 /Volumes/Second Drive/System/Library/CoreServices/PlatformSupport.plist
notifyd 12 root 76r REG 14,3 869 71470645 /Volumes/Second Drive/System/Library/CoreServices/.disk_label
mds 53 root 8r DIR 14,3 1326 2 /Volumes/Second Drive




Not totally sure how to prevent this, or even if this is the cause - the previous drive that had this same issue didn't have an osx installed on it and was just full of files and a windows partition.


Also, I'd think booting from the Lion recovery image wouldn't be accessing these same files ~

Will continue looking into this.

 

[onetimeking]

bump

 

[onetimeking]

The other issue is when I kill those processes they restart right away, before i can unmount

 

[onetimeking]

Taking the drive out of the optical bay, and mounting it with a sata -> usb works totally fine.

Any ideas what could be the problem?