on 7/23/04 1:42 PM, Shawn Jesty at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I Had a strange crash (might be heat) where my 9.1gb scsi startup > (10.3.4) drive no longer mounts. It's shown in the system profiler > and is seen in Disk Utility although it can't be repaired (because > it's not mounted) unless it's initialized. I can startup from another > scsi drive running 10.2, same deal with profiler and disk utility. > I've tried both tech tool and disk warrior which don't see the drive > because it's not mounted. > > If I boot using an OS 9 drive (ata) and use Silverlining Pro to mount > the drive it I can then run OS 9's disk repair utility which doesn't > find any problems with the drive. Once mounted using Silverlining I > can copy files from the disk (I've rescued some files this way). > Silverlining tells me that the driver for this disk need to be > repaired which would require it being re-initialized, which I'm > trying to avoid. Once mounted in OS 9 I can choose it as the startup > disk, although when I get the Apple startup screen everything looks > fine until the Apple turn to a circle with a slash through it. At > this point I need to restart using a different drive. > > If I could get the drive mounted in OS X I could probably use > techtool, disk warrior or Apple's disk utility to repair the drive. > Does anyone know of a OS X disk mounting utility besides Apple's disk > utility that will only work it I re-initialize the drive? > > Thank you for any ideas. > > Shawn > You can update the driver without re-initializing the disk. I would do that with the OS X disk utility. Hopefully that is all it needs. Then I would run disk utility repair after it mounted and then back-up everything before doing anything else. Shawn Scott Richmond, BC Canada
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