[G4] WD HD

[Jim Reamer]

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?
>
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