[G4] WD HD

[Brian Conner]

The reason I asked is because the only time I've ever seen a problem even
remotely similar to yours was with an Iomega enclosure.

Do you have any data on the drive that you need to save? If not, try
reformatting the drive with one partition and see if that shows up. Maybe it
has something to do with the 3-partition setup.


Brian Conner


-----Original Message-----
From: Power Macintosh G4 List [mailto:G4 at lists.themacintoshguy.com] On
Behalf Of Jim Reamer
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 3:19 PM
To: Power Macintosh G4 List
Subject: Re: [G4] WD HD


Brian,
    No. It's a Western Digital external. I see no sign that the 
enclosure is anything other than WD.
Jim

On Monday, May 12, 2003, at 10:52  PM, Brian Conner wrote:

> By any chance is the drive in an Iomega enclosure? If so, I'd suggest
> moving
> it to a Granite Digital enclosure.
>
>
> Brian
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Power Macintosh G4 List [mailto:G4 at lists.themacintoshguy.com] On 
> Behalf Of Jim Reamer
> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 4:52 PM
> To: Power Macintosh G4 List
> Subject: Re: [G4] WD HD
>
>
> 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?