Thanks, Joe. I have a Quicksilver 867 upgraded to 1.5ghz, running Tiger. I've tried booting from an OS 9 CD (wouldn't boot), and a Norton CD (ditto). Tech Tool Deluxe couldn't see any of the three partitions, either.
My question: If I somehow failed to trash the desktop disk icons on my last use, which I know is the usual cause for this problem, and therefore "fried the B Tree," which I read is the consequence of such misbehavior, is that damage in the FireWire case or the hard drive itself? (If the latter, obviously the exercise of disassembling the FireWire drive -- although I know how, and have done it before -- wouldn't be worth the exertion.) My usual HD is running fine. I'm just trying to keep my backup tools working as preventive medicine. If this exercise did confirm that the FireWire case was the problem, would it help me in any way except to confirm I needed a new FireWire case? > > I'm not sure what computer you have, but if it's a Sawtooth, you > could try opening the case and plugging the external drive into the > internal FW port on the motherboard. > > You could also try taking the drive itself out of the FW case and > attaching it to one of the IDE buses. > On Feb 28, 9:29 pm, joe <j...@joethejuggler.com> wrote: > On Feb 28, 2009, at 9:19 PM, 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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
