I've had firewire external drive problems in the past and the cause was the chipsets used in the case.
JT tonycd wrote: > Pardon me for quasi-hijacking this thread, but I just ran into nearly > the same exact problem. > > Only worse: my external FireWire drive isn't seen at all. (3 > partitions: a Panther, a Tiger and a Leopard.) Worked last time. This > time, none of the three show up anywhere. Not on the desktop, not in > Disk Utility, not even in Disk Warrior. The physical disk sounds like > it's running normally. > > Uh-oh. > > --Tony > > > On Feb 28, 7:55 pm, "Wallace Adrian D'Alessio" > <[email protected]> wrote: > >>On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Ken W <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>Hi, >> >>>I am running a PowerMac G4 dual 450 with OS X 10.3.9. I have 2 external >>>firewire hard drives, a LaCie 80 GB and a LaCie 750 GB. The 750 has 3 >>>partitions. Everything was working great, but I powered off my computer >>>today and now when I rebooted the 80 GB is unmounted, and 2 of the 3 >>>partitions on the 750 are unmounted. Disk Utility can see these unmounted >>>drives/ partitions, but can not mount them. >> >>>What the heck? I am not that technical with this kind of stuff. >> >>>__________________________________________________ >> >>What file system were they formatted in? >> >>Do you shut it down regularly with no similar problem? >> >>Have you mounted them to any other machines recently? >> >>Have you installed any new software or updates recently that may have files >>in startup or shutdown folders? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
