Aug 27, '04 10:07:00AM • Contributed by: Iamrod
Next time it happened, I just started Classic and the drive came right up. I don't know how or why it happens, but it has worked with other clients' computers, as well.
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An OS 9 / Classic fix for unmountable FireWire drives
Aug 27, '04 10:07:00AM • Contributed by: Iamrod
I have had a ongoing problem with miscellaneous FireWire drives that won't mount. Clicking on the grayed-out drive in the Disk Utility only creates an endless beachball. After trying DiskWarrior, Data Rescue, and other various tools that were no help, I tried booting into OS 9 (sorry newer Mac owners) and the drive immediately showed up on the desktop. When I booted back to OS X, all was well and the disk just worked.
Next time it happened, I just started Classic and the drive came right up. I don't know how or why it happens, but it has worked with other clients' computers, as well.
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An OS 9 / Classic fix for unmountable FireWire drives
You may want to be careful. I had a similar (though not quite the same) problem with an external firewire drive that I have. I could mount and work with it in OS 9, but in OS X it would quickly become unusable.
An OS 9 / Classic fix for unmountable FireWire drives
Another reason to be careful about rebooting into OS 9, with any volume (not just Firewire drives), is that some volumes you've been using under OS X, can sometimes suffer directory damage if you stay in OS 9 for a while (an hour or so has been my experience). If I have to boot into OS 9 these days, I generally try to get my OS 9-specific stuff done quickly and then reboot into OS X, or I first disconnect my most important drives (I usually have three or four connected).
An OS 9 / Classic fix for unmountable FireWire drives
i had a similar issue recently (still running 10.3.2) on my 450mhz cube and a FW400 oxford 911 chipset ext. drive.
An OS 9 / Classic fix for unmountable FireWire drives
I have experienced similar problems. The most reliable way I have found (it seems to work 100% of the time for me) is to reboot in single-user mode (holding [COMMAND]-S) - then run" /sbin/fsck -y". When I exit single-user mode I have 9 lovely firewire disk icons sitting on my desktop.
An OS 9 / Classic fix for unmountable FireWire drives
I wonder if the problem has anything to do with the OS 9 desktop files needing to be altered/updated by OS 9 before some drives can be seen properly by OS X--I remember reading recently about some drive problem with OS X that was fixed by rebuilding the desktop files. You can do this in the Classic prefpane, so that might do the job for Macs that won't boot directly into OS 9. |
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