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

[Eric Smith]

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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