Bad Super Block? We've Got the Magic Number to Prepare Your External HD for Mac
7 August 2009 - 11:27pm
| Jesse K-S
by Jesse Kirdahy-Scalia
Having problems setting up your external hard drive with your Mac? A search for answers to "the underlying task reported failure on exit" leads one on a wild Google chase through useless Apple support documents, unnecessary Terminal command lines that return "bad super block: magic number wrong," and complicated Unix forum threads. It's enough to drive one mad, but the solution is surprisingly simple.