Restart doesn't help. And he has never restarted without pulling the plug. Paul Moortgat On 24 Mar 2005, at 18:16, Jerry Krinock wrote: > 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.