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Quicker mounting of external Firewire drives
Authored by: dave1212 on Jul 30, '03 12:31:13PM
BrentT, your drive and/or Jaguar install sounds messed up.

This is not a hint, just troubleshooting that is specific to your machine, as it is evident that this is not the norm.

My external drive mounts within 10 seconds as well, methinks you have system problems. Check the Discussion Boards at Apple, you might find some help there.

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Quicker mounting of external Firewire drives
Authored by: 9KILLER on Jul 30, '03 01:36:42PM

Not a system problem, necessarily. A few months ago, I started running into the same issue with an external FireWire drive. Turns out the drive was going bad, and "fsck_hfs" was being run on it before OS X would allow it to mount.



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Quicker mounting of external Firewire drives
Authored by: ig on Jul 30, '03 02:00:57PM

It may not be your system software. Some older, or just badly made, firewire cases are just problematic for any OS to handle. Also, sometimes the cable is barely functioning. I have a cluster of 5 firewire drives, all made at different times, and by differnent manufactureres. Some of them may even be pre-oxford 911!!

Some of them show up right away, and some require a lot of fiddling (including sometimes using the above tip), or turning them off/on, plugging/unplugging, restarting, etc.
For the oldest two, it is a big hassle.



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evident?
Authored by: risc_abacus on Jul 31, '03 04:47:08PM

Your posting is what the second reply to the hint. The first person didn't have this mounting problem nor have you so it is evident it is his machine? I think not.

I have 3 macs with firewire, (out of 7) all are up-to-day and all have issues mounting firewire devices, one a powerbook just had in internals replaced due to a firewire problem. I two different external hard drives (enclosures buy two different companies, a cd-rw... cause an iMac doesn't have a burner, and a new iPod, also a friend brings over his external HD from time to time... pc user). All my system have problems mounting firewire devices in any timely fashion. Recently I replaced my HD's in my tower system so I backed everything (of importance) on to DVD's and some to a firewire drive. I then removed my old hard drives and replaced them with brand spanking new drives, did a clean install of 10.2.3 (have that install cd) then applied all relevant updates. I then rebooted my tower hooked up the firewire drive to extract some data and boom nothing... I waited for 20 some minutes... I had a phone call and left the computer running... didn't mount. This is just typical problem all FW devices I have ever used.

It is evident that firewire mounting is a problem for some system/user and not necessary tied to anyone thing. Typically I don't care because I am not in any rush to access the data, so I have never really did any troubleshooting. I do plan on trying this tip later today.



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evident?
Authored by: dave1212 on Aug 04, '03 01:29:31PM

haha man, your system is screwed.. you shouldn't be having those issues.
I have just as many firewire devices in and out of my mac and no issues like you're having. The only time I have had a problem with a firewire device (ext. HD, pre-OX911) was when it was first connected to an older power mac 7500 with a firewire PCI card.
After some research on the Apple Discussion Boards, I found that the PCI card was not supported under older mac OSs and have since returned it.
Don't bother trying to argue on here. Try to help instead.


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