I temporarily stayed off the board until Ken's problem was solved. I'm glad for him, but mine still isn't.
I did the daily, weekly and monthly cleanup chores (MacJanitor was my tool of choice). I ran DiskWarrior 3.0.3 for Tiger. Nothing. I tried the external drive on a Blue & White. It didn't recognize it either. I pulled the drive from the FireWire case and popped it into the Blue & White, replacing its resident IDE drive. (I didn't want to mess with my G4 because it has a firmware upgrade for its transplant CPU. No sense tempting fate.) The hard drive spun up the Blue & White perfectly, displaying two of its three partitions. Obviously the failure to display all three is an eyebrow-raiser. The drive is a very low-mileage, late-model Seagate 320. I know Seagates and Maxtors (same maker) have had trouble lately, but I also know this has been especially true on a line of much larger drives that doesn't include this one. (The partition that wasn't recognized has Leopard on it from a MacBook. Is it possible the partition didn't show up in a Smurf because the machine can't run Leopard?) On Feb 28, 9:54 pm, tonycd <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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 [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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
