Quicker mounting of external Firewire drives

Jul 30, '03 10:00:00AM

Contributed by: BrentT

I have an external Firewire hard drive that I only use for backups and storage of large video files. It has a noisy fan so I like to leave it off. When I wanted to use it I found that I would have to wait as long a five minutes before the drive would mount on the desktop. It would mount right away on restarts, but I don't want to do that most times. Here is a shortcut to speed up the mounting of the drive.

After turning on the drive, open Apple System Profiler. Then select the Devices and Volumes tab. Under the Window menu select Refresh. Then select Refresh again. You will find the drive now is mounted.

[robg adds: I've never experienced super-slow mounting times for my external FW hard drives - if someone else has, can you verify this solution?]

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