Tom wrote: > I was given a 500-gig FireWire 800 external drive (generic, I guess; > no logo on the metal case) as part of the deal when I bought my G5 on > eBay, but when I plug the drive into the FW 800 port of my G5, it does > not show up on the desktop, even with restarts. I tried a different FW > cable, and tried both FW ports on the drive, same result. Then I took > the drive over to a G4 MDD with a FW 800 port and plugged it into that > computer, but the G4 doesn't see it either, so it's not likely a dead > FW port on the G5. The fan in the case is running, and I can hear the > drive humming away in there too, the case gets warm and vibrates > mildly to the touch like things are spinning inside, and the blue > light is shining steadily on the front of the case. But it doesn't > show up on the desktop, and Disk Utility doesn't see it either. > > Back in the old SCSI days, I remember using search utilities that > could seek out drives and mount them, but Disk Utility doesn't seem > capable of that, or at least I don't see any "Search for and Mount > Drives" option.
Even if the drive wasn't mounted Disk Utility would show it. If it doesn't show the drive at all it means the OS isn't seeing it as a drive. > > What do you do with a thing like this? Look at System Profiler, under FireWire. It should at least show the IDE (or SATA) to FW interface if not the drive itself. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
