On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Bill Christensen < [email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm guessing that something changed on your boot drive so that it no > longer properly loads the drivers or whatever needed to see the > Firewires. > > Try running disk utility's HD repair or DiskWarrior from the CD on > the boot drive. (if you can see the other drives when you boot off > the CD, that's a good sign). I have run Disk Utility and it "sees" the other drive and partition, but they are greyed-out (because they are unmounted?). If I tell it to mount, it does nothing. > As others have mentioned, you may want to try Onyx (or applejack, or > that third one which is slipping my mind right this sec) on your boot > drive. They'll run the standard nightly/weekly/monthly cleanup > routines which *won't happen* if you regularly turn your machine off > at night. It can make a world of difference - I recommended it to a > friend the other day who is on off-grid solar power (therefore very > conscious about energy use and always turns everything off) and he > reported that it was like a new machine after that. I will do this in the future but I don't think it will help me mount my hard drive/ partitions? > > > The other possibilities are that your Firewire ports got fried, or > that something happened like a lightning strike in the area which > toasted both externals simultaneously. If the above doesn't fix the > problem, pull one open and put the drive in the machine to see what > happens. I thought of this but it doesn't make sense to me because the one partition is functioning fine. > > > At 6:49 PM -0800 2/28/09, Ken W wrote: > >Hi Wallace, thank you for your help, here's the info: > > > > > >What file system were they formatted in? > > They are in Journaled HFS+ > > > >Do you shut it down regularly with no similar problem? > > Yes > > > >Have you mounted them to any other machines recently? > > No > > > >Have you installed any new software or updates recently that may > >have files in startup or shutdown folders? > > > >No, I started to install Flash 10, but did not get through the > >process because this requires OS X 10.4 or greater. I hope this is > >helpful. One other thing, when I booted up before this problem, the > >computer got stuck at the grey apple screen, sat there for over 10 > >minutes so I had to hard restart it. > > > > > > > >On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Ken W > ><<mailto:[email protected]>[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. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Bill Christensen > <http://greenbuilder.com/contact/> > > Green Building Professionals Directory: <http://directory.greenbuilder.com > > > Sustainable Building Calendar: <http://www.greenbuilder.com/calendar/> > Green Real Estate: <http://www.greenbuilder.com/realestate/> > Straw Bale Registry: <http://sbregistry.greenbuilder.com/> > Books/videos/software: <http://bookstore.greenbuilder.com/> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
