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2008 / 10.5.1 trouble with booting/seeing external firewire?

« on: March 01, 2008, 07:23:00 PM »

QUOTE(krissel @ Mar 1 2008, 04:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Sounds like the only thing you can do for now is to try that AppleScript or the terminal commands on the drives, one at a time, and immediately create an alias for each one on the desktop before you do the next. At least you would have an easier way to get to the drives.

Actually, an alias for each drive is exactly my work around. Hence the reason I haven't really tried to fix this. Plus I have aliases of the folders that I use the most on these drives.

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2008 / 10.5.1 trouble with booting/seeing external firewire?

« on: March 01, 2008, 03:03:37 PM »

I'm a bit late on this. But finally did some troubleshooting. Still no luck. Even if I plug the FireWire drive into another Mac the drive still doesn't show. Also, if I connected the drive over a network (AppleShare) it doesn't show up.

Which of course makes sense, since the setting is for the drive to be invisible. I just wish I could figure out why it went invisible in the first place and why I can't get it back to visible.

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2008 / 10.5.1 trouble with booting/seeing external firewire?

« on: February 13, 2008, 09:57:45 PM »

Thanks, will post the results. Was going to tonight but I am using the FW drive for some video work – maybe tomorrow.

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2008 / 10.5.1 trouble with booting/seeing external firewire?

« on: February 12, 2008, 08:32:20 AM »

With Apple releasing 10.5.2 update I was hoping that it would solve my issue. But unfortunately it's still the same.

Out of my three internal drive paritions (from two drives), I was able to get two to show.

Out of my three FireWire External partitions (from two drives), I'm still not seeing them.

For my next troubleshoot, I am going to connect the FW drives to another Mac runing Tiger and see if they show up there.

Wish me luck.  

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2008 / 10.5.1 trouble with booting/seeing external firewire?

« on: February 08, 2008, 11:50:52 AM »

QUOTE(Paddy @ Feb 8 2008, 12:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Out of curiosity (and you may have gone through this already) - how did you apply the 10.5.1 update? Have you tried reapplying the combo update? This problem isn't universal - probably the majority of people have NOT had this issue, so it's hard to say whether it's something in the 10.5.1 update or some other factor that may not appear to be related, but in fact is.

What happens if you start up as a different user? Or in Safe Mode? Any differences? Does Disk Utility see the drives? Can you unmount them and then mount them again? (My externals disappear and then reappear in the sidebar when I do this, as one would expect)

Have you tried trashing the Finder .plist and then restarting? Resetting the PRAM (it does store info about the startup volume, so might be worth a shot)

These may all be long shots, but possibly worth a go if you haven't tried them yet.

Actually, I haven't really done any troubleshooting with the problem. Partly because I've been busy. Partly because after upgrading to Leopard I've had a few quirky issues like this. (I just upgraded the system, not archive and install. Plus, I am always messing with my system, installing/uninstalling software and stuff. So it's probably me, not necessarily Leopard.) And partly because this issue hasn't really disrupted my work flow enough.

I was looking for a quick fix and thought I found it with that AppleScript.

To answer your questions - The issue is for all the user accounts. Haven't tried safe mode. Disk Utility can see/verify/repair/mount/unmount the drives. Haven't reset the PRAM and haven't trashed the finder.plist file. So now I will need take some time and troubleshoot to figure it out.

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2008 / 10.5.1 trouble with booting/seeing external firewire?

« on: February 08, 2008, 10:40:07 AM »

QUOTE(Paddy @ Feb 8 2008, 11:24 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Weird. Can you run it on the one that it didn't work on (first) and see what happens? If it still doesn't work, you could at least get the others working (maybe - testing would be in order of course).

Wonder if there is something in the firmware of the last drive that doesn't play nice with 10.5.1?

I continued trying various orders of the hard drives but the Apple script doesn't do anything at all to any drive. I was able to get the boot drive to show and stay shown but the other internal partition is still invisible and all the FireWire drives are still invisible.

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2008 / 10.5.1 trouble with booting/seeing external firewire?

« on: February 08, 2008, 08:26:30 AM »

Thanks to everyone who has welcomed me. Nope not from MO, the Fulton comes from Canal Fulton which is near Akron, OH.

So last night I tried the AppleScript from the link Paddy posted. It worked for each drive until I went to run it for the last drive. When I applied the script, the Finder quit as it should and the other drives I ran through the script disappeared again.

So I'm back to square one.

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2008 / 10.5.1 trouble with booting/seeing external firewire?

« on: February 07, 2008, 08:51:46 PM »

QUOTE(Paddy @ Feb 7 2008, 09:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Welcome, FultonKBD!

There is a script link at the end of this Apple thread that fixed things for one person:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?m...96&#5972596

Thanks for the greeting and thanks for the link. I'll take a look.

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2008 / 10.5.1 trouble with booting/seeing external firewire?

« on: February 07, 2008, 08:34:59 PM »

I am experiencing a similar issue. I don't have any issues booting, but the internal boot drive isn't showing on my desktop or sidebar along with any of my FireWire hard drives which are 500GB Segate and a couple of OWC Neptune drives built as a raid. The second internal drive that I use for back up is showing up fine.

I have a few aliases set up to various folders from the FireWire drives and I can use them no problem. And I can still boot and navigate but have to jump through some hoops to get the root level of the internal hard drive.

I haven't figured out a fix yet.