A little Mac help please guys.

mattley · Post by **mattley** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:08 pm 0

A mate of mine has just turned up with a lacie external FW drive which refuses to mount, it spins up OK, and disk util verifies it as fine, and says no repair is necessary, but the mount icon is dimmed and it won;t appear on the desktop.

any hel pappreciated as ever.

TIA

mattley

RedOktober · Post by **RedOktober** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:20 pm 0

Defenestrate the mac.

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:24 pm 0

Diskwarrior time!

Or break out "man mount" from the command prompt and mount it yourself

You could always use something like Macopener under windows and try that. Or I suspect Linux can mount mac volumes...

Cheers

Bubba

Jimaroid · Post by **Jimaroid** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:24 pm 0

I've had a similar problem when there was a stale directory in /Volumes/... Check the contents of that corresponds with what mount thinks is mounted there.

Beyond that, I don't know.

piku · Post by **piku** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:32 pm 0

If it's Unixy, open a console/XTerm or whatever they're called in MacLand and type

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dmesg

The last few lines might tell you something useful, as might looking in the system logs.

mattley · Post by **mattley** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:43 pm 0

Bubba wrote: Diskwarrior time!

Hmmm could be....

Bubba wrote: Or break out "man mount" from the command prompt and mount it yourself

aha, now I've tried that, and it means very little to me I'm afraid, disk utility tells me that the mount point is /volumes/Lacie disk, but I really don;t understand the switches

any pointers appreciated

mattley · Post by **mattley** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:49 pm 0

piku wrote: The last few lines might tell you something useful, as might looking in the system logs.

logs have a few lines saying webDAV protocol not supported ????

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:39 am 0

mattley wrote:aha, now I've tried that, and it means very little to me I'm afraid, disk utility tells me that the mount point is /volumes/Lacie disk, but I really don;t understand the switches

I don't have a mac in front of me (or anything unixy for that matter!) but I'd suggest firing up terminal and changing directory (cd) to /volumes/ and taking a look at what's there (ls). Try changing to the Lacie Disk folder and see if you can see the contents of the disk there. If so, it's just the automatic desktop icon thing which is buggered.

Good luck!

Cheers

Bubba

DarkElf · Post by **DarkElf** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 3:45 am 0

If DiskWarrior can't mount it I believe there's no hope.
BTW at our shop we're getting a LOT of faulting LaCie HD, most of them are 500 raid (Big Disk). Where switching to Maxtor and WesternDigital.

ravuya · Post by **ravuya** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 5:27 am 0

If it's got a /Volumes/ mount point, then it's already mounted. Try rebooting the machine to clean the mount table, and try again.

If not, the drive is probably fried.

Stone · Post by **Stone** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:17 am 0

ravuya wrote:If it's got a /Volumes/ mount point, then it's already mounted. Try rebooting the machine to clean the mount table, and try again.

Do you actually have to reboot to do that? When I reboot the PB I have 4 options:
1) Everything works
2) Everything works except the volume control keys do nothing
3) Everything works except USB
4) Everything works except the Dock's crashed and won't un-hide or zoom

To be honest it's about 25% on each

I figured out how to reset the Dock without rebooting (didn't realise it had a sentinel to restart it when you send it an HUP) but the rest all need another try and it takes fucking forever to reboot.

Knowing how to do all this stuff without having to would be ace

Stone

Baggypants · Post by **Baggypants** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:00 am 0

If its a d2 drive designed by Porche Have you tried the LaCie Update Tool v1.3.3 for Mac OS X to update he firmware

http://www.lacie.com/support/drivers/

about 3/4 way down. worked for me.