Re: External drive fails to appear on Desk top?

2011-02-14 Thread John Callahan
On Feb 14, 2011, at 7:24 AM, Geke wrote: Then what can be the difference between the two systems, the one on the old drive and the newly-installed one? In the worst case, you could always take the HD from its enclosure and connect it in a different way, like USB, with that device Bruce sugge

Re: External drive fails to appear on Desk top?

2011-02-14 Thread Geke
Then what can be the difference between the two systems, the one on the old drive and the newly-installed one? Can you try the drive on another computer? Or do you have a clone of that old system you can boot from and see if the drive appears with that one running? Or does this HD need some driver

Re: External drive fails to appear on Desk top?

2011-02-13 Thread John Callahan
Yes. Please excuse my delayed response. On Feb 9, 2011, at 7:42 AM, Geke wrote: Hey readers, all answers so far are focussing on the LaCie, but can’t this be something else? After all, the drive was working fine with the old OS. By the way: Was that 10.4.11 as well? To me it looks more like the

Re: External drive fails to appear on Desk top?

2011-02-09 Thread Geke
Hey readers, all answers so far are focussing on the LaCie, but can’t this be something else? After all, the drive was working fine with the old OS. By the way: Was that 10.4.11 as well? To me it looks more like the newly-installed OS can’t find a driver for it, although I have no idea how that co

Re: External drive fails to appear on Desk top?

2011-02-08 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 8, 2011, at 12:22 PM, John Callahan wrote: Firmware Revision: 0x102 This is a firmware issue with your enclosure. It was a known issue of the Oxford 922 chipset when it was issued back in 2003, and has been fixed since then. See:

Re: External drive fails to appear on Desk top?

2011-02-08 Thread Dan
At 12:20 PM -0700 2/8/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Feb 8, 2011, at 12:11 PM, John Callahan wrote: This particular model of LaCie appears to be in a sealed case with no access to drive jumpers. Any suggestions? Have replugged cables. Drive is about three years old. I completely misunderstood.

Re: External drive fails to appear on Desk top?

2011-02-08 Thread Clark Martin
On Feb 8, 2011, at 11:11 AM, John Callahan wrote: On Feb 8, 2011, at 1:54 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Feb 8, 2011, at 11:22 AM, John Callahan wrote: Drive appears in System Profiler but not on the desktop? System Profiler will show the volume as well, if it's mounted. If Disk Utility d

Re: External drive fails to appear on Desk top?

2011-02-08 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 8, 2011, at 12:11 PM, John Callahan wrote: > Thanks Bruce, > This particular model of LaCie appears to be in a sealed case with no access > to drive jumpers. Any suggestions? Have replugged cables. Drive is about > three years old. I completely misunderstood. I thought you said you had

Re: External drive fails to appear on Desk top?

2011-02-08 Thread John Callahan
On Feb 8, 2011, at 1:54 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Feb 8, 2011, at 11:22 AM, John Callahan wrote: Drive appears in System Profiler but not on the desktop? System Profiler will show the volume as well, if it's mounted. If Disk Utility doesn't show it at all, something may be wrong with

Re: External drive fails to appear on Desk top?

2011-02-08 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 8, 2011, at 11:22 AM, John Callahan wrote: > Drive appears in System Profiler but not on the desktop? System Profiler will show the volume as well, if it's mounted. If Disk Utility doesn't show it at all, something may be wrong with the drive or enclosure. Some (generally older) FW encl

External drive fails to appear on Desk top?

2011-02-08 Thread John Callahan
Drive appears in System Profiler but not on the desktop? Was using LaCie Porsche as a back up drive as a general precaution and as computer hard drive was starting to fail. Installed new computer hard drive. I shut down the computer, turned off the LaCie external drive and then unplugged th