[G4] Remounting Firewire Drives

[Mel]

Disk Utility will mount the drive for you.

On Monday, March 3, 2003, at 09:38 PM, Russ Maehl 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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