Jan 28, '02 08:31:28AM • Contributed by: davetron5000
Now, I formatted these partitions in windows. The wierd thing is that both Windows and OS X ignore the labels (so it seemed). During the course of figuring this out, I ended up (at one point) with both of the partitions on my FireWire drive having the same name. This was OK on Windows, but on OS X. It would mount the first partition, but not the second. It couldn't even properly determine the filesystem type of the second (although I could mount it via the Terminal, Finder wasn't automounting it). Plugged the drive into Windows, changed the partition name (no reformat necessary), and voila, it worked again in OS X.
Very obscure and wierd, but it might happen to you (and it's probably a bug, because I could mount it via the shell).
