Re: Firewire hard drives not mounting

2009-03-01 Thread Ken W
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

Re: Firewire hard drives not mounting

2009-03-01 Thread Ken W
I doubt that we are dealing with separate issues, it is the same problem across both drives and happened simultaneously. I also doubt this is a firewire or power issue because, again, one of the partitions is working fine (read/ write/ running apps). Aside from that, these wouldn't even power up

Re: Firewire hard drives not mounting

2009-03-01 Thread Ken W
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.eduwrote: Ken, you said Disk Utility could see them, what happened when you tried to repair them? I can verify or repair them, and it says that they are OK. But I click Mount and nothing happens. In Disk Utility there

Re: Firewire hard drives not mounting

2009-03-01 Thread Ken W
a corrupted HD that Disk Utility won't fix. It also has an OS9 utility, which works well also. I wish I had the new version for Intel macs... I'd say go for it. -Cyrus On Mar 1, 10:58 am, Ken W ken...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Bruce Johnson john

Firewire hard drives not mounting

2009-02-28 Thread Ken W
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

Re: Firewire hard drives not mounting

2009-02-28 Thread Ken W
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 ken...@gmail.com 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

Re: New DVD RW running slow on PowerMac G4 Dual 450

2009-02-15 Thread Ken W
Hi Jorg, Thank you for the information, I have to admit it is a little bit over my head. Is Toast available on OSX 10.3.9 or will I have to upgrade to 10.4? If you could email me the files I would very much appreciate it! Thank you again for your help. Ken On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 3:10 AM,