On Jan 2, 2009, at 5:15 AM, Christopher Icha wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> I have a G4 MDD's and a MacBook running OS10.4, which I use to share
> an Iomega 500g external FW drive between. The Iomega drive mounts up
> no problem on either desktop when I use the respective firewire ports
> on either machine.  However, I've just taken possession of a 2nd G4
> MDD running the same OS. For some strange reason, the FW drive
> refuses to mount on the desktop of this new machine. The drive shows
> up in the system profile, but it won't mount on the desktop.   The OS
> is updated to 10.4.11 on all machines. Any ideas peeps?
>
>
Is the firmware (boot Rom ver. up to date?) [About this Mac/ More  
info/ near the bottom of the 'Hardware Overview'       check against  
Mactracker info.]

I have several MDDs, and external Firewire drives sometimes take a  
while to show up on the desktop.

Chuck D.


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