[X4U] See / Don't see

[Paul Moortgat]

He told me know that the drive is an USB2 only.  No firewire.  Strange 
thing is that it will work on the PB and not G4 desktop.

Paul Moortgat

On 24 Mar 2005, at 03:10, Ted Burton wrote:

> At 6:33 PM +0100 on 3/23/05, Paul Moortgat spoke about [X4U] See / 
> Don't see thusly:
>
>> I've a friend when he connect an external firewire drive on his G4 
>> desktop doesn't see the drive. Not even in Disk Utility.  He has 
>> 10.2.8 on this Mac.  When he connects to his G4 Powerbook, the drive 
>> appears on the desktop.  He has 10.3.8 on the Powerbook.
>> What's wrong?
>
> Don't know.  There were issues way back about the chip set in the 
> drives, but mounting on the PowerBook indicates that's not an issue.
>
> There's a shareware utility called iMount which I have used to good 
> effect to mount a drive accidently 'ejected.'