[G4] WD HD

[Jim Reamer]

From: Jim Reamer <jna1322 at mac.com>
Date: Sat May 10, 2003  3:44:20  PM US/Eastern
To: "Power Macintosh G4 List" <G4 at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
Subject: Re: [G4] WD HD

Brian,
    Thanks for the reply.
    While I do get the drive to show up on Apple Profiler, it does not 
show up on Disk Utility, greyed out or otherwise.

    Well, I just tried again to no avail so I unplugged and replugged. 
Two of my three partitions mounted. The third was described as 
"unknown" and a message said it would not mount. This is the one I had 
my main drive backed up on using CCC. Then I rechecked Disk Utility and 
now all three are there with "Backup" (unknown) greyed out. So I used 
DiskFirst Aid to repair the drive (partition).  The phrase "Keys out of 
order" is the first sign of problem, followed by "Rebuilding Catalog 
B-tree". It's been going for 5 minutes with no sign of progress so 
we'll see.
    After 40 min. I stopped it.......Well, after some screwing around I  
verified and repaired the partition.  It still wouldn't mount so I went 
to disc utility to follow your advice; highlight and mount from 
options.The color wheel came up when I clicked on the partition. It's 
still spinning. I can't even force quit.
    So whenever I try to work on the drive using Disk Utility the 
program locks up. I can still use the computer for certain jobs but the 
drive and Disk Utility is locked up.
    So even if I do get the drive to show up on Disk Utility, I still 
can't use it.
    Any more thoughts?

Thanks,
    Jim

On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 05:23  PM, Brian Conner wrote:

> Jim:
>
> I'll leave the CCC questions for others who have used it before. As to 
> your
> FW drive not showing on your desktop, usually if you will open Disk 
> Utility
> (I leave an alias on my desktop) you will see the drive grayed out. 
> Click on
> it to select it and choose Mount from the Options menu.
>
> Most of the time, this will do the trick.
>
>
> Brian Conner
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Power Macintosh G4 List [mailto:G4 at lists.themacintoshguy.com] On
> Behalf Of Kurt Appling
> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 11:22 AM
> To: Power Macintosh G4 List
> Subject: Re: [G4] WD HD
>
>
> RE; I too am open to suggestions, your description is quite normal to
> what I have had.although some difference to note,I am useing external
> firewire boxes that have seperate on off switches,also if I try useing
> either external drive box alone I get your problems as well, however if
> I daisy chain the two, then all is well they both show up fine,but as
> for system backup,I have CCC my main drive to each of the two back up
> drives,some things work others do not,I seem to loose a large amount of
> data somewhere,the Icons for it are presant,but all the info is
> gone,its just like the folders are empty. so it may be something to do
> with termination,but I really dont know much. best wishes
>
>
> On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 09:45 AM, Jim Reamer wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> 	I recently bought a WD 120gig firewire external hard drive. It seems
>> to be working fine, I have used CCC to backup the hard drive of my G4
>> 933 to the WD. However, the external doesn't show up on my desktop. If
>> I unplug it and plug it back in, then it will show. Otherwise nothing.
>> Also, it seems to run non-stop. Is that right? Any suggestions?