[Ti] Help lost firewire drive

[~flipper]

ms offered:

>I can't get my Western Digital 100 gig firewire drive to mount. 
>Disk Utility can see the drive but not the volume.   I can't lose 
>what's on it so I can't initialize as it asks to.  I just upgraded 
>to 10.2.3 yesterday and now for the first time in nearly a year with 
>OS X I have a disk problem.  I can't get Disk warrior 2.1 or Drive 
>10 to see it.  After losing the drive, I also got my first kernel 
>panic.  Can there be a connection, how do I fix the directory on the 
>lost drive?

It's a firewire drive, so you try un hooking it, reboot, launch 
DiskWarrior from OS 9. Then, after DW is launched, plugin the drive, 
and see if that doesn't allow it to be seen, and have its Directory 
rebuilt, or wrapper fixed, etc.

brian s