On Feb 28, 2009, at 9:33 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.) Just to try and keep things 'understandable' ----- Your External Firewire drive has 3 partitions. One of which boots Panther, One of which boots Tiger, and One of which boots Leopard. ALL of these partitions are JUST Partitions. There isn't ANYTHING other than the contents to define them as Panther, Tiger, or Leopard. The question is, which format is the Hard Disk? HFS, HFS+, or Journaled HFS+ ??? > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
