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One possible fix for a non-visible external hard drive
Authored by: terrorbyte on Jan 23, '07 10:26:57AM

is it just me, or do lacie drives fail more than others?



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One possible fix for a non-visible external hard drive
Authored by: xp2mac on Feb 12, '07 07:28:45PM

I don't have a LaCie drive, I have an Ultra. It often fails to show up in Finder when I turn it on. I thought it was a Firewire problem and switched over to USB - it came up fine. Then it started acting up again. It actually went offline on its own overnight. Then I discovered that even though it didn't show up as mounted in Finder, it was actually mounted in /Volumes (using Terminal) and I was able to access it (using Terminal).

So the problem for me is getting it to show up as mounted in Finder so that I can access ith with Finder. Sometimes just leaving it off for a long period of time helps. And I've done all the reset stuff, sometimes it works.

20" iMac G5 2GHz OS-X 10.4.8

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One possible fix for a non-visible external hard drive
Authored by: xp2mac on Feb 12, '07 07:33:16PM

I should correct one statement. The external drive is in an Ultra case. The drive itself is a 250GB Western Digital. I don't recommend the Ultra case. The fan is way too noisy.

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One possible fix for a non-visible external hard drive
Authored by: xp2mac on Feb 12, '07 07:44:22PM

I also just discovered that a possible reason it didn't show up in Finder is that it was still mounted in /Volumes. Using "diskutil eject /Volumes/Mac1-HD2" and power-cycling the external drive, it then showed up in Finder.

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One possible fix for a non-visible external hard drive
Authored by: Yoron on Jul 01, '07 09:57:38AM

I may have to try that. I have an external HD that I partitioned--the second partition has not been showing up in Finder for the longest time. I've ben going to Disk Utility (displays it there), then clicking on the hyperlink at the bottom to open it up in a Finder window... but if I eject it in Disk Utility, is that the same as ejecting it in Terminal?



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One possible fix for a non-visible external hard drive
Authored by: johnsawyercjs on Jun 30, '07 10:07:54PM

Either LaCie drives fail more often, or we hear about it more often because more people seem to buy LaCie Firewire drives than other brands.



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