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Mount a trashed hard drive using Target Disk mode
Authored by: guybrush on Nov 29, '04 12:20:00PM

thx for the hint, should come in handy sometime.

I've had a few occasions when my USB hdd didnt automount in Finder (reboot worked tho), when I encounter this problem again I guess i'll try to mount it myself via Terminal :)



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Mount a trashed hard drive using Target Disk mode
Authored by: javiolo on Nov 29, '04 01:08:49PM
I have a USB Lacie external hd that doesn´t mount (Win or Mac) I tried several apps to mount it but they don´t find it... I´ve checked USB devices in About mac and appears there, Lacie d2 Drive USB2. Now I don´t what to write in the code you posted
 mount -t hfs -r /dev/diskXXXX /Volumes/iBook 
What I have to substite the diskXXXX value? Lacie d2 Drive USB2 ? Thanks

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Mount a trashed hard drive using Target Disk mode
Authored by: bpfh on Nov 29, '04 03:41:18PM

Sorry, I do not know what the designation for an USB drive would be. At the moment, my SanDisk card reader, for instance, appears as /dev/disk2s2.

I am not sure how to get a listing of active devices in MacOS X. Entering ls /dev/disk* will give you a complete listing, but how to determine which one is your USB drive? Anyone?

-bpfh

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Mount a trashed hard drive using Target Disk mode
Authored by: guybrush on Nov 30, '04 07:24:06AM

When i mount i see 'BSD Name' in 'About this Mac->More Info'

for example
BSD Name: disk2
...
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk2s9

Not sure if it appears if it DOESNT mount correctly in finder..



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