...Doesn't work with striped external volumes?

[ron___b]

DiskInventoryX doesn't seem to like my external drive - it's actually two 500GB LaCie drives (Firewire800) that are RAID striped together to look like a single 500GB drive. When I launch DiskInventoryX it spins for a while and then the normal window shows up but the window is unresponsive and never shows anything more than a blank (white) background. Resizing it by a corner gives the error message:

incorrect calculated parent size ( sum(childs) > parent )

Any thoughts?

(Running under Tiger - tried it with both the regular released version and the Universal beta...same results)

[Tjark Derlien]

Do you use the drive as your Time Machine volume? Unfortunately, DIX has problems with Time Machine volumes.

- Tjark

[ron___b]

Nope, haven't got Time Machine running on this box yet (still under Tiger). The only thing that I can think of that's different from other drives where it works properly is the striping/RAID setup.

[Tjark Derlien]

That's strange.
Would you please run Disk Utilty's repair function on that disk and have a look if that makes any difference for Disk Inventory X?

[ron___b]

Nope, disk repair didn't change anything. In the meantime I've added a 2nd striped RAID drive to the machine and THAT works fine. So now I'm completely baffled. It actually works fine if I pick subdirectories on the drive, just not the whole drive. The disk is pretty full - 2GB free on a 500GB drive... any chance that's got something to do with it? At any rate, since I can use it on the individual directories i need it's not a huge deal, just curious.