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Mount un-mountable external Firewire drives
Authored by: diamondsw on Feb 06, '04 03:21:45PM

If you can get it to show up in df, you may have a chance. Try the following (this is from memory, so I hope I recall it all):

From the terminal, run the system disk mounter script:
sudo /Systen/Library/StartupItems/Disks/Disks

This *might* mount the disk into the filesystem. In my case it did, but the drive would not show up on the desktop, and it locked up disk utilities. However, it was mounted. Try this:
cd /Volumes/; ls

If it's there, copy everything off using:
ditto --rsrc /Volumes/<yourvolume>/* <wherever>

Good luck!



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