[X4U] Tiger doesn't mount firewire volume that Panther does

Andy Hannen andy.hannen at virgin.net
Tue Sep 13 11:42:50 PDT 2005


> Recently purchased QuickSilver w/Tiger OS. Oddly, when booted in Tiger,
> one of the three volumes on a firewire drive will not mount. When
> booted in Panther, the volume mounts with no problem.
> Disk Utility within Tiger will not mount the volume.
> DiskWarrior 3.0.2 rebuilds the directory but says a Macintosh services
> error keeps it from replacing the old directory. DW says boot from the
> CD and rebuild again. I did that with success, but the volume still
> will not mount under Tiger.
> This does nothing to boost my confidence in Tiger; and I was skeptical
> about it to start with. From the little I have seen of it, I see NO
> improvement in performance over Panther. And it is not as intuitive or
> as user-friendly as Panther is. At least, not in this brief window of
> exposure I have seen.
> 
> For the heck of it, I'm going to backup the Tiger-unmountable volume,
> erase it, and restore it--just to see if that corrects the Tiger
> hiccup.
> 
> Meanwhile, has anyone else had this same problem with Tiger?
> BTW, I have an identical FW drive of 3 identically sized volumes that
> DOES mount under Tiger.
> 
Are they Lacie FW drives? If so did you update their firmware?
Andy 




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