[G4] external drive don´t show up in finder or on desktop G4

[Eric Smith]

It's a Finder preference. This thread may be of some help:

http://forums.macworld.com/thread/69973

Eric S.

Eric Smith wrote:
> Just a shot - I think there's a Desktop preference like
> "show external drives on the desktop". I would expect it
> to be enabled by default but you never know.
> 
> Eric S.
> 
> stefan möller wrote:
>> Hi everyone!
>>
>> I have a gigasmart FW400/usb2 external drive that I´m trying to 
>> connect to my G4 with OSX3.9.
>>
>> I´ve had it for a while but it´s a long time since I´ve been using it. 
>> This is because my internal drives was over loaded. Now I have been 
>> doing a major clensing and reinstalled OSX 3.9 , so there should be 
>> enough space to make it run.
>>
>> I can see in the system profiler that the computer detects it. I can 
>> also see the images of the drive(1main+ 4 partitions) in the disk 
>> utility.
>>
>> But.... I can´t see it on desktop nor the sidebar ...I can´t find a 
>> way to open up the disk...
>>
>> *I have been checkin both type of connections with same result.
>> *I remember I nearly maxed it out though I did save a lot of stuff on it.
>> *In disk utility I can see the main disk fully but the partitions are 
>> greyed out.
>>
>> Could there be an explanation in any of this?
>> What do I have to do to make it show up in finder or on the desktop?
>>
>> best regards
>> stefan möller
>>
>> G4 800 quicksilver (single processor)
>> OSX 3.9
>>
>> (hope this text is readable)
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