Try turn on the system Power up the drive then connect the firewire cable.
On Jan 2, 9:09 am, Charles Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
