Does he ever restart his G4 desktop? That usually fixes this problem for me, especially after I accidently pulled the plug without ejecting. Paul Moortgat said: > 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.