On Feb 15, 2010, at 11:32 AM, mark ray wrote:
Looking around the web I am reading that since I am using (a
PowerMac G5 with) Leopard 10.5.8, that may be causing the problem.
Highly unlikely.
It has been suggested that I check them while running Tiger or even
Panther.
Largely BS evidence.
Where are the drives coming from? If they're coming from Windows
systems they may be NTFS, and if they were unmounted in a 'dirty'
state, they may not be mountable with out the force option, which
(iirc) Disk Utility does not offer. You need HTFS-3G for OS X:
NTFS-3G for OS X <http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/ntfs3g.html
>
This also gains you REad/Write access to NTFS volumes.
If, after this you cannot mount the volumes, likely there's nothing to
mount; reformat 'em and test 'em.
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