So I updated to 11.3.1 and guess what! My Time Machine drive has disappeared!
Disk Utility tells me that the drive is not initialised.

My dislike of Big Sur has changed to hatred.

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On 2021-05-04 at 6:11:58 pm BST, "Michael Phillips" <me@odtaa.com.invalid>
wrote:

> So I updated to 11.3.1 and guess what! My Time Machine drive has disappeared!
> Disk Utility tells me that the drive is not initialised.
>
> My dislike of Big Sur has changed to hatred.

That sounds like a possible problem with the disk, rather than with Big Sur.

I'd suggest turning off Time Machine for now and running Disk Utility against
the disk to see if that's the case.

On 04/05/2021 17:11, Michael Phillips wrote:
> So I updated to 11.3.1 and guess what! My Time Machine drive has disappeared!
> Disk Utility tells me that the drive is not initialised.
>
> My dislike of Big Sur has changed to hatred.
>

Have you checked here? https://ibb.co/nbqNdfN

Do tell. :-D

On 04/05/2021 17:11, Michael Phillips wrote:
> So I updated to 11.3.1 and guess what! My Time Machine drive has disappeared!
> Disk Utility tells me that the drive is not initialised.
>
> My dislike of Big Sur has changed to hatred.
>

Simple, just restore the old OS off of Time Machine.

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Basil Jet <basil@spamspamspam.com> wrote:
> On 04/05/2021 17:11, Michael Phillips wrote:
>> So I updated to 11.3.1 and guess what! My Time Machine drive has disappeared!
>> Disk Utility tells me that the drive is not initialised.
>>
>> My dislike of Big Sur has changed to hatred.
>>
>
> Simple, just restore the old OS off of Time Machine.
>

I thought his TM drive was not initialised (unreadable?) according to DU.

--
Cheers, Alan

On 04/05/2021 21:27, Basil Jet wrote:
> On 04/05/2021 17:11, Michael Phillips wrote:
>> So I updated to 11.3.1 and guess what! My Time Machine drive has
>> disappeared!
>> Disk Utility tells me that the drive is not initialised.
>>
>> My dislike of Big Sur has changed to hatred.
>>
>
> Simple, just restore the old OS off of Time Machine.

He said earlier that he doesn't have a TM back-up!

He might /find/ his disk if he adjusts the 'Finder' 'Preferences'

On 4 May 2021 at 21:33:54 IST, "Alan B"
<alanrichardbarker@nospamgmail.com.here> wrote:

> I thought his TM drive was not initialised (unreadable?) according to DU.

Yes, that's it. I tried the SSD in a different enclosure and the result is the
same. Fortunately I have other backups but none as recent as Time Machine.

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Michael Phillips <me@odtaa.com.invalid> wrote:
> On 4 May 2021 at 21:33:54 IST, "Alan B"
> <alanrichardbarker@nospamgmail.com.here> wrote:
>
>> I thought his TM drive was not initialised (unreadable?) according to DU.
>
> Yes, that's it. I tried the SSD in a different enclosure and the result is the
> same. Fortunately I have other backups but none as recent as Time Machine.

Thank god for that! For added security, I keep both TM and Carbon Copy
Cloner backup drives, although I sometimes don’t use CCC as often as I
should.

--
Cheers, Alan

Forgot to say that I also tried it with a different boot drive (also Big Sur
but not updated) with the same result - uninitialised.

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On 05/05/2021 08:06, Michael Phillips wrote:
> Forgot to say that I also tried it with a different boot drive (also Big Sur
> but not updated) with the same result - uninitialised.
>

Did you check here? https://ibb.co/nbqNdfN

On Tuesday, 4 May 2021 at 18:12:00 UTC+1, Michael Phillips wrote:
> So I updated to 11.3.1 and guess what! My Time Machine drive has disappeared!
> Disk Utility tells me that the drive is not initialised.
>
> My dislike of Big Sur has changed to hatred.
>
> --
> mhphillips at gmail dot com

Not linked but Bif Sur doesn't use Kernels of something
as I found that my virtualbox for running windows 10 doesn't work anymore
and there as yet isn't any update which does.
There are work-arounds but I've not found one that works as yet.

Also the new M1 mac won't run bootcamp So our message to new students will be a new M1 mac
won't run the sortware we use for labs for free (unless you purchase Parallels for £70) .

Hope either VB or BC will be sorted before term starts in september, so we can update them.

whisky-dave <whisky.dave@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 4 May 2021 at 18:12:00 UTC+1, Michael Phillips wrote:
>> So I updated to 11.3.1 and guess what! My Time Machine drive has disappeared!
>> Disk Utility tells me that the drive is not initialised.
>>
>> My dislike of Big Sur has changed to hatred.
>>
>> --
>> mhphillips at gmail dot com
>
> Not linked but Bif Sur doesn't use Kernels of something
> as I found that my virtualbox for running windows 10 doesn't work anymore
> and there as yet isn't any update which does.
> There are work-arounds but I've not found one that works as yet.
>
> Also the new M1 mac won't run bootcamp So our message to new students
> will be a new M1 mac
> won't run the sortware we use for labs for free
> (unless you purchase Parallels for £70) .
>
> Hope either VB or BC will be sorted before term starts in september, so we can update them.
>
>

Have you looked at VMware for Intel based Macs? Works fine on my Intel
MacBook Air. Free versions for students available.

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On 7 May 2021 at 13:55:41 BST, "whisky-dave" <whisky.dave@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tuesday, 4 May 2021 at 18:12:00 UTC+1, Michael Phillips wrote:
>> So I updated to 11.3.1 and guess what! My Time Machine drive has disappeared!
>> Disk Utility tells me that the drive is not initialised.
>>
>> My dislike of Big Sur has changed to hatred.
>>
>> --
>> mhphillips at gmail dot com
>
> Not linked but Bif Sur doesn't use Kernels of something
> as I found that my virtualbox for running windows 10 doesn't work anymore
> and there as yet isn't any update which does.
> There are work-arounds but I've not found one that works as yet.
>
> Also the new M1 mac won't run bootcamp So our message to new students will be a new M1 mac
> won't run the sortware we use for labs for free (unless you purchase Parallels for £70) .

Parallels doesn't emulate the x64 to run normal Win10, so there's the
risk MS will withdraw the Arm version of Win10 from general use too. But
Win10/Arm does run Intel 32/64bit software in its own emulation layer.

Cheers - Jaimie

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On 07/05/2021 13:55, whisky-dave wrote:
> On Tuesday, 4 May 2021 at 18:12:00 UTC+1, Michael Phillips wrote:
>> So I updated to 11.3.1 and guess what! My Time Machine drive has disappeared!
>> Disk Utility tells me that the drive is not initialised.
>>
>> My dislike of Big Sur has changed to hatred.
>>
>> --
>> mhphillips at gmail dot com
>
> Not linked but Bif Sur doesn't use Kernels of something
> as I found that my virtualbox for running windows 10 doesn't work anymore
> and there as yet isn't any update which does.
> There are work-arounds but I've not found one that works as yet.
>
> Also the new M1 mac won't run bootcamp So our message to new students will be a new M1 mac
> won't run the sortware we use for labs for free (unless you purchase Parallels for £70) .
>
> Hope either VB or BC will be sorted before term starts in september, so we can update them.

VMware have already stated that the forthcoming "M1" Fusion version is
*not* going to emulate x86, so you either need to strongly advise
against an M1 Mac, or seriously look into updating the software you use
for labs.

At some point your students will not be able to buy x86 Macs, so you've
got a (very) little time...

--
Chris

Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> wrote:
> On 07/05/2021 13:55, whisky-dave wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 4 May 2021 at 18:12:00 UTC+1, Michael Phillips wrote:
>>> So I updated to 11.3.1 and guess what! My Time Machine drive has disappeared!
>>> Disk Utility tells me that the drive is not initialised.
>>>
>>> My dislike of Big Sur has changed to hatred.
>>>
>>> --
>>> mhphillips at gmail dot com
>>
>> Not linked but Bif Sur doesn't use Kernels of something
>> as I found that my virtualbox for running windows 10 doesn't work anymore
>> and there as yet isn't any update which does.
>> There are work-arounds but I've not found one that works as yet.
>>
>> Also the new M1 mac won't run bootcamp So our message to new students
>> will be a new M1 mac
>> won't run the sortware we use for labs for free (unless you purchase Parallels for £70) .
>>
>> Hope either VB or BC will be sorted before term starts in september, so
>> we can update them.
>
> VMware have already stated that the forthcoming "M1" Fusion version is
> *not* going to emulate x86, so you either need to strongly advise
> against an M1 Mac, or seriously look into updating the software you use
> for labs.

I’ve been using Parallels on my M1 MBP for a few months now with as ARM
Windows VM. This VM runs pretty quick and as, Jaime points out, offers
emulation for 32 and 64 bit Windows applications. I hope VMware soon have
their own M1 product to rival parallels and thus speed up further
development by rivalling parallels.

<https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/news/vmware-support-m1-macs-soon>

--
Cheers, Alan

On 11 May 2021, Alan B wrote
(in article<s7d88m$hmh$1@alanrichardbarker.eternal-september.org>):

> I hope VMware soon have
> their own M1 product to rival parallels and thus speed up further
> development by rivalling parallels.

They wrote an odd blogpost about how there’s no licensed way of doing it as
yet. Seems a bit odd:
<https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2021/04/fusion-on-apple-silicon-progress-
update.html>

Have to say that as a long-standing VMware user I read that and thought
“hmm - I should buy Parallels when I move to M1”.

Cheers,
Ian

Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> wrote:
> On 11 May 2021, Alan B wrote
> (in article<s7d88m$hmh$1@alanrichardbarker.eternal-september.org>):
>
>> I hope VMware soon have
>> their own M1 product to rival parallels and thus speed up further
>> development by rivalling parallels.
>
> They wrote an odd blogpost about how there’s no licensed way of doing it as
> yet. Seems a bit odd:
> <https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2021/04/fusion-on-apple-silicon-progress-
> update.html>

“Windows is second priority behind Linux”, whereas Parallels seem to be
giving Windows top priority. This nicely differentiates their goals from
Parallels which I assume was established primarily to run Windows VMs.
However several ARM Linux distros can already be run in Parallels VMs.

> Have to say that as a long-standing VMware user I read that and thought
> “hmm - I should buy Parallels when I move to M1”.

Possibly?

--
Cheers, Alan

On Friday, 7 May 2021 at 14:02:36 UTC+1, Alan B wrote:
> whisky-dave <whisk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 4 May 2021 at 18:12:00 UTC+1, Michael Phillips wrote:
> >> So I updated to 11.3.1 and guess what! My Time Machine drive has disappeared!
> >> Disk Utility tells me that the drive is not initialised.
> >>
> >> My dislike of Big Sur has changed to hatred.
> >>
> >> --
> >> mhphillips at gmail dot com
> >
> > Not linked but Bif Sur doesn't use Kernels of something
> > as I found that my virtualbox for running windows 10 doesn't work anymore
> > and there as yet isn't any update which does.
> > There are work-arounds but I've not found one that works as yet.
> >
> > Also the new M1 mac won't run bootcamp So our message to new students
> > will be a new M1 mac
> > won't run the sortware we use for labs for free
> > (unless you purchase Parallels for £70) .
> >
> > Hope either VB or BC will be sorted before term starts in september, so we can update them.
> >
> >
> Have you looked at VMware for Intel based Macs? Works fine on my Intel
> MacBook Air. Free versions for students available.
>
> --
> Cheers, Alan

Thanks but no, as when the students come to univ. with their shiny new M1 macs they'll want to know
why they can't use them for the courses with hardware that we run.
Some will be asking us what computer should they buy , which will pretty much rule out the new Macs
as recomendations at this time.

On Tuesday, 11 May 2021 at 06:51:34 UTC+1, Chris Ridd wrote:
> On 07/05/2021 13:55, whisky-dave wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 4 May 2021 at 18:12:00 UTC+1, Michael Phillips wrote:
> >> So I updated to 11.3.1 and guess what! My Time Machine drive has disappeared!
> >> Disk Utility tells me that the drive is not initialised.
> >>
> >> My dislike of Big Sur has changed to hatred.
> >>
> >> --
> >> mhphillips at gmail dot com
> >
> > Not linked but Bif Sur doesn't use Kernels of something
> > as I found that my virtualbox for running windows 10 doesn't work anymore
> > and there as yet isn't any update which does.
> > There are work-arounds but I've not found one that works as yet.
> >
> > Also the new M1 mac won't run bootcamp So our message to new students will be a new M1 mac
> > won't run the sortware we use for labs for free (unless you purchase Parallels for £70) .
> >
> > Hope either VB or BC will be sorted before term starts in september, so we can update them.
> VMware have already stated that the forthcoming "M1" Fusion version is
> *not* going to emulate x86, so you either need to strongly advise
> against an M1 Mac, or seriously look into updating the software you use
> for labs.

we can't update the software we run the latest versions and every year it's updated.

Here's our 2 biggest problems. (other than students of course)

https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA00Z0000019QhDSAU&l=en-GB
Multisim is currently only available for installation on Windows operating systems. Multisim can not be installed on Mac OS X or Linux. ... It is possible to use Multisim on a Mac OS X or Linux by means a Virtual Machine, where you are in fact installing on Windows. In Mac OS X you can also use Bootcamp.

Bootcamp currenly doesn't run on M1s

https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA00Z000000P72ySAC&l=en-GB

Using the NI myDAQ on an Apple Computer with macOS.
The NI myDAQ can be used on macOS but it has the following requirements;

macOS version 10.14 or below.
DAQmx Base driver 15.0.0 or below.
(first time I've seeen instructions to run software below a version) ;-)

>
> At some point your students will not be able to buy x86 Macs, so you've
> got a (very) little time...

Not our problem that will be Apples when we can no longer recomend Macs.

>
> --
> Chris

On 11 May 2021 at 13:16:34 BST, "whisky-dave" <whisky.dave@gmail.com> wrote:

>>
>> At some point your students will not be able to buy x86 Macs, so you've
>> got a (very) little time...
>
> Not our problem that will be Apples when we can no longer recomend Macs.

Interesting! Would I recommend my grandkids enrol in a school where the tech
support person can't spell, can't punctuate and responds to David Brooks?
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On 11/05/2021 17:09, Elliott Roper wrote:
> On 11 May 2021 at 13:16:34 BST, "whisky-dave" <whisky.dave@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> At some point your students will not be able to buy x86 Macs, so you've
>>> got a (very) little time...
>>
>> Not our problem that will be Apples when we can no longer recomend Macs.
>
> Interesting! Would I recommend my grandkids enrol in a school where the tech
> support person can't spell, can't punctuate and responds to David Brooks?

https://discussions.apple.com/terms

On 11/05/2021 17:09, Elliott Roper wrote:
> On 11 May 2021 at 13:16:34 BST, "whisky-dave" <whisky.dave@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> At some point your students will not be able to buy x86 Macs, so you've
>>> got a (very) little time...
>>
>> Not our problem that will be Apples when we can no longer recomend Macs.
>
> Interesting! Would I recommend my grandkids enrol in a school where the tech
> support person can't spell, can't punctuate and responds to David Brooks?

YOU explain!

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252755807

Elliott Roper <nospam@yrl.co.uk> wrote:
> On 11 May 2021 at 13:16:34 BST, "whisky-dave" <whisky.dave@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> At some point your students will not be able to buy x86 Macs, so you've
>>> got a (very) little time...
>>
>> Not our problem that will be Apples when we can no longer recomend Macs.
>
> Interesting! Would I recommend my grandkids enrol in a school where the tech
> support person can't spell, can't punctuate and responds to David Brooks?

LOL :-)

--
Cheers, Alan

On Tuesday, 11 May 2021 at 17:09:48 UTC+1, Elliott Roper wrote:
> On 11 May 2021 at 13:16:34 BST, "whisky-dave" <whisk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>
> >> At some point your students will not be able to buy x86 Macs, so you've
> >> got a (very) little time...
> >
> > Not our problem that will be Apples when we can no longer recomend Macs.
> Interesting! Would I recommend my grandkids enrol in a school where the tech
> support person can't spell, can't punctuate and responds to David Brooks?
> --
> To de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$
> PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248

Well I have to respond to all types of life forms .

got this from a student on monday at 7:35am

subject:- emergency help !
"Is it possible to get a magnet from the lab, we face hard situation with key being locked inside the door and hope using magnet would help to a better extent I believe."

as for spelling well our highly paid admin managers can't see what's wrong with calling a lab full of iMacs
a MAC Laboratory.
-----------
Not sure if it was meant but grandkids enrol !

On Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 10:36:17 AM UTC-7, David.Brooks wrote:
> On 11/05/2021 17:09, Elliott Roper wrote:
> > On 11 May 2021 at 13:16:34 BST, "whisky-dave" <whisk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>>
> >>> At some point your students will not be able to buy x86 Macs, so you've
> >>> got a (very) little time...
> >>
> >> Not our problem that will be Apples when we can no longer recomend Macs.
> >
> > Interesting! Would I recommend my grandkids enrol in a school where the tech
> > support person can't spell, can't punctuate and responds to David Brooks?
> YOU explain!
>
> https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252755807

And in response you have nothing but a crack to start something. How is
failing synaptic connections tied to the intelligence of a turnip in any
way going to lead to meaningful usenet discussion? It was William Poaster
who got busted using lots of puppets like a moron, and these are 'people'
who come out of the blue directly into threads where he was getting his
ass handed to him... nonstop for over a decade.

Until or unless William Poaster offers up his 'gold standard' GNU/Linux
program for assessment, there is no threat, just unsupported claims.

Shadow's computer has more hard drives than William Poaster's. Shadow wins.
William Poaster loses. Simple as that. Don't look now, but I think William
Poaster has a serious obsession with Shadow.

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