[1394] Re: FW mounting problem after improper put-away 10.1/10-.2

[Terry Harrison]

re:  ext. firewire drive not mounting, which used to before improper  
put away

Thanks to all for the suggestions, but I haven't gotten it mounted yet.
In a summary here's what I've tried.
Recall, the drive used to mount fine.
Any feedback more than welcome... (need drive mounted for project)
-Terry :o)

1. Booted in 9.2.2 :
	*drive doesn't mount
	*First Aid sees volume (which I named "fw128") but doesn't let me  
diagnose or mount it
	*Drive Setup says its an unsupported drive, won't let me initialize  
"unsupported" drive.

2. 10.1.5 X
	* drive doesn't mount
	* tried cycling power on drive after OS startup
	* tried connecting drive before and after startup
	*tried USB cable (as my enclosure supports both USB and FW)
	*Disk Utility shows the drive, but it's volume (which should be  
"fw128") has no name
		*cannot mount it
		*tried erasing, repartioning, all to no avail. Using extended  
formatting.
	*tied trashing any plists  "fire" and DiskUtility, to no avail
	*didn't reinstall Disk Utility, trying it on another mac (10.2.4)  
instead

2.  10.2.4
	tried all above, except did not delete any plists here.

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Help very much appeciated!   :o)





On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 06:04 PM, Arne Halbakken wrote:

> Have you tried booting it up in OS 9 to see if it would recognize the  
> drive?
>
> Have you tried the Firewire drive on a friend's computer? Have you  
> tried booting up on the install CD? (I don't know if the driver is  
> loaded on the CD or not.)
>
> Have you considered that it might be a corrupted plist (preference  
> file)? If that is the case, you might consider trashing the offending  
> file. Could it be a plist relating to the Apple Disk Utility or a  
> Firewire driver?
>
> Disk Warrior (by Alsoft) is the best utility for repairing directory  
> problems.
>
> Have you tried re-installing the Apple Disk Utility?
>
> If you do end up re-formatting the Firewire drive, you might consider  
> HFS+ (Apple extended) since it utilizes space better than HFS  
> (standard). Sorry, I just saw that in your e-mail that that is what  
> you are planning on doing. It would be nice to recover your data > first.
>
> You might want to check for some ideas on Randy Singer's excellent  
> site. <http://www.macattorney.com/tutorial.html>
>
> Good luck. I hope you get some good ideas to try.
>
> Arne Halbakken
>
>> My OS 10.1 system got locked up and I had to do the evil unplug of  
>> the machine to get it back.
>>
>> The system is up and working great, but now I can't mount my Firewire  
>> drive.
>> I couldn't "eject" it properly before (similar to a power outage) but  
>> need get it to mount now.
>>
>> I looked at Disk Utility on 10.1 and saw a B-tree error, that would  
>> come and go, if I repeatedly clicked "repair"
>> I checked out the disk on a 10.2 system and was able to repair the  
>> B-tree error but still couldn't mount the disk.
>> It was "standard" formatted.
>>
>> OK ... so for this, I've given up on recovering the data and am  
>> trying to reformat the disk (on 10.2) to extended format.
>> Now it seems the Apple Disk Utility is stuck in the "Preparing drive  
>> ... unmounting old volumes" phase.  The blue bar is still animated  
>> "flowing" , but seems to be stuck 3/4 the way though the process.
>>
>> Checked the processes using the "top" command in the Terminal.  Disk  
>> Utility is not locked up, as I see fluctuations in its usage of the  
>> CPU.  Still... nothing has happened for a several minutes.
>>
>> GOAL:  I'm laying down lots of DV video to the drive to edit later. I  
>> need to have the drive be a reliable archive and not need to be  
>> reformatted or lose data in case it gets unmounted improperly.
>
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