[G4] Remounting Firewire Drives

[John Wilson]

 You may be able to get it to remount by opening Disk Utility or by opening the startup disk system pref. Also, turning the drive off, then back on should do it. John


On Monday, March 03, 2003, at 10:38PM, Russ Maehl <rmaehl at bigpond.net.au> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I make heavy use of a pocket 40gig LaCie firewire drive.  I go from office
>to home, and only have to insert the firewire connector to start up and
>power the drive....that works great.
>
>What I do not like is that to dismount you drag the drive icon to the trash,
>or do command-e to eject....which is fine, but if you want to remount the
>drive, you have to physically pull the connector and then reinsert it into
>the drive.
>
>I have had no problems or near misses with fried firewire problems, but
>seems to me the more often I have to physically connect and reconnect, the
>more my chances of a problem occurring.
>
>Anyone have a software solution to get the firewire drives to mount?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Russ
>
>
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