On Mar 1, 2009, at 12:04 AM, tonycd wrote:
> > > > On Feb 28, 10:47 pm, Charles Davis <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Feb 28, 2009, at 9:33 PM, tonycd wrote: >> > I know it isn't the first. I THINK it was the second. (Of course, now > I can't find out.) > > >> The question is, which format is the Hard Disk? >> >> HFS, HFS+, or Journaled HFS+ ??? I think I'd take Kris's idea for a start. > On Feb 28, 2009, at 10:08 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: > >> >> On Feb 28, 2009, at 7:39 PM, Ken W wrote: >> >>> What the heck? I am not that technical with this kind of stuff. >> >> I used to boot from Firewire HDs all the time, and occasionally would >> run into a similar issue. The problem was somehow something switched >> the Firewire kext in OS X to some other setting. I remember I looked >> in the System.log when the Firewire was working and it always said >> something like "A400" and "400Mbps" somewhere. When it was broken and >> not mounting the HDs it said "A100" and "100Mbps" instead. I believe >> the solution was to use Onyx, Cocktail, or Applejack to clean the >> caches, etc., and reboot. Then it acted normally again. I don't know >> if this is your problem, but it worked for me when my Firewire drives >> stopped mounting. >> Whatever, when you find a fix, please let us know. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
