Freecom Hard Drive Protection Problem

My Toughdrive Freecom external drive doesn't work anymore.
When I plug it in it tells me "Freecom Hard Drive Protection: No supported Freecom hard drive detected Please connect your Freecom hard drive first"
And I am not sure on how to fix this issue.
I have just recently upadted my OSX to lion ( I had 10.6.8 before) before I updated I didn't have any trouble pugging in my freecom.
It is password protected, but that has never been a problem before.
I do not want to reformat it and restar over all my work and things are on it, I really can't offord to lose all that work.
So please I really need help. I'll take any suggestions thank you.

I actucally fixed the problem.
For some odd reason the freecom hard drive doesn't work on a 10.7.5 or earlier. I had to borrow a friends old mac (10.6.8) and I had to go threw the process of removing the password. After I got ride of the password it started to work on my mac again. Once again for some odd reason the software for 10.7.5 or earlier wont recognize the password. So your best bet is to take it off.
You can read the manel on the freecom website on how to do that.
Or you can just click on the CD that says password and then click on the option that says remove password. I"m not possitive on that information, but I think that is how you do it.
I hope this helps.

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...and when I took it apart and proceeded to
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putting the hard disk on the secondary IDE, and installing the new drive as the master and installing Windows on it, with the old drive as the slave.
Does the 2nd HD work then, were you able to boot up and install Windows?
Does BIOS detect it?
Have you tried a new IDE cable?
Make sure that all the pins are properly in and not loose in the molex connector to the HD.
Have you tried using the new drive alone on IDE-1 or 2?
Have you tried clearing CMOS? remove P/S AC cord, press case power button a few times to drain remaining power then clearing CMOS buy way of the jumper.
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I'm trying to avoid that as long as I can though because this one is only 5 months old
Did you buy this MB new?
If so you could RMA it.

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/0/6/0.0.0 /dev/sdb disk 120GB WDC WD1200JB-00E
/0/6/0.0.0/1 /dev/sdb1 volume 101MiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/6/0.0.0/2 /dev/sdb2 volume 258MiB Linux swap volume
/0/6/0.0.0/3 /dev/sdb3 volume 7506MiB EXT4 volume
/0/6/0.0.0/4 /dev/sdb4 volume 104GiB EXT4 volume
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/0/6/0.1.0/1 /dev/sdc1 volume 76GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/8/0.0.0 /dev/sda disk 640GB Hitachi HDT72106
/0/8/0.0.0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 596GiB Windows NTFS volume
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When Arch does happen to mount itself properly as sda and the system starts successfully, then the lshw command shows this:
[root@(none) ~]# lshw -short | grep /dev/
/0/6/0.0.0 /dev/sda disk 120GB WDC WD1200JB-00E
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/0/6/0.0.0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 258MiB Linux swap volume
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/0/6/0.0.0/4 /dev/sda4 volume 104GiB EXT4 volume
/0/6/0.1.0 /dev/sdb disk 81GB Maxtor 6Y080P0
/0/6/0.1.0/1 /dev/sdb1 volume 76GiB Windows NTFS volume
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/0/8/0.0.0/1 /dev/sdc1 volume 596GiB Windows NTFS volume
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Or should I remove my sda entries in etc/fstab and let Arch determine where my Linux filesystems are? If so, how?
It's interesting to note that GRUB is set to boot Arch Linux from hd0, which should be sda.
It's also intriguing to note that if I take out my Sata drive, I never encounter this problem.
Last edited by trusktr (2010-06-15 07:49:31)

Thanks kgas, here's what i found out so far:
Alright so after rebooting, this is what i determined:
When Linux mounts the drives incorrectly (take note of the parts in bold, the short numbers are NTFS filesystems, long numbers the Linux filesystems):
[trusktr@rocketship ~]$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 14 21:08 01CA836D8BE82040 -> ../../[b]sdc1[/b]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 14 21:08 0ddf0e41-e7e6-4af5-b0e9-bc79a91b12eb -> ../../[b]sdb1[/b]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 14 21:08 92b88528-dd0f-4c1b-bcce-54084ef2aceb -> ../../[b]sdb4[/b]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 14 21:08 C838CF5838CF4462 -> ../../[b]sda1[/b]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 14 21:08 cdb33de5-0100-4c5f-a9b1-5c1a444e6eac -> ../../[b]sdb3[/b]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 14 21:08 d0a5d49d-169d-43ce-af0f-216dc4a9f604 -> ../../[b]sdb2[/b]
So an NTFS filesystem is mounted in sda instead of the Linux filesystem
When Linux mounts everything properly:
[trusktr@rocketship ~]$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 14 21:08 01CA836D8BE82040 -> ../../[b]sdb1[/b]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 14 21:08 0ddf0e41-e7e6-4af5-b0e9-bc79a91b12eb -> ../../[b]sda1[/b]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 14 21:08 92b88528-dd0f-4c1b-bcce-54084ef2aceb -> ../../[b]sda4[/b]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 14 21:08 C838CF5838CF4462 -> ../../[b]sdc1[/b]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 14 21:08 cdb33de5-0100-4c5f-a9b1-5c1a444e6eac -> ../../[b]sda3[/b]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 14 21:08 d0a5d49d-169d-43ce-af0f-216dc4a9f604 -> ../../[b]sda2[/b]
This doesn't tell us much except that I indeed do have uuid's for all the drives.
So, i guess as kgas said, i probably need to use the uuid in fstab so that Linux always knows which hard drive is the linux drive! In that case, only the uuid for the Linux drive will be necessary. For the other drives it wouldn't matter so much i guess since they don't contain the operating system.
Alright, i'll be back to determine if this fixes it!
Last edited by trusktr (2010-06-15 06:41:25)

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-mj
[email protected]

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thomaskehoe – Read only
system – Read & Write
wheel – Read only
everyone – Read only
SSD (start-up drive, internal)
system – Read & Write
wheel – Read only
everyone – Read only
Documents HD (internal drive)
thomaskehoe – Read & Write
tdk (Me) - Read & Write
system – Read & Write
admin – Read & Write
everyone – Read only
2TB HD (internal drive, Time Machine only)
thomaskehoe – Read only
staff – Read only
everyone – Read only
Videos 2010 (external drive)
tdk (Me) - Read & Write
staff – Read only
everyone – Read only
When I open the “Users & Groups” System Preference panel I see three accounts:
Thomas David Kehoe (current user) - Admin
Thomas Kehoe - Admin
Guest User – Sharing only
But the hard drives list the following seven accounts:
thomaskehoe
tdk (Me)
system
admin
staff
wheel
everyone
Lots of questions:
- Why doesn’t SSD (the startup-drive) show my account? Is Lion somehow running on Macintosh HD even though SSD is set as the start-up disk? From the speed of start-up it seems to be starting from the SSD. The desktop icons have Macintodsh HD as the top icon.
- Am I “thomaskehoe” or “tdk (Me”)? Are these accounts? If not, what are they?
- I appear to be “Thomas David Kehoe – Admin,” not “Thomas Kehoe – Admin.” Should I get rid of the latter account?
- I understand that “everyone” isn’t an account.
- “admin,” “wheel,” and “staff” seem to be different ways of saying “group,” which isn’t an account. Why do different hard drives have different names for this?
- “system” seems to be on every drive that has an operating system, so that’s not an account either.
- Should I set every permission to “Read & Write” except “everyone”?
- Should I run Disk Utility > First Aid > Verify Disk Permissions and Repair Disk Permissions? I ran this on SSD and it found lots of stuff to repair.
iTunes and iPhoto seem to be the apps that have the most problems with permissions.

Thomas Kehoe wrote:
Macintosh HD (internal drive)
thomaskehoe – Read only
system – Read & Write
wheel – Read only
everyone – Read only
SSD (start-up drive, internal)
system – Read & Write
wheel – Read only
everyone – Read only
Documents HD (internal drive)
thomaskehoe – Read & Write
tdk (Me) - Read & Write
system – Read & Write
admin – Read & Write
everyone – Read only
2TB HD (internal drive, Time Machine only)
thomaskehoe – Read only
staff – Read only
everyone – Read only
Videos 2010 (external drive)
tdk (Me) - Read & Write
staff – Read only
everyone – Read only
When I open the “Users & Groups” System Preference panel I see three accounts:
Thomas David Kehoe (current user) - Admin
Thomas Kehoe - Admin
Guest User – Sharing only
But the hard drives list the following seven accounts:
thomaskehoe
tdk (Me)
system
admin
staff
wheel
everyone
You are getting groups and accouunts confused. You have 2 admin accounts, either because you created them or because you used Migration Assistant after Setup Assistant, instead of on your first boot. The Guest user is standard from 10.6. It is an account that can be used by guests and will preserve no data created after use and return to default.
- Why doesn’t SSD (the startup-drive) show my account? Is Lion somehow running on Macintosh HD even though SSD is set as the start-up disk? From the speed of start-up it seems to be starting from the SSD. The desktop icons have Macintodsh HD as the top icon.
Easy way to find out Apple Menu > About this Mac > Startup Disk.
- Am I “thomaskehoe” or “tdk (Me”)? Are these accounts? If not, what are they?
- I appear to be “Thomas David Kehoe – Admin,” not “Thomas Kehoe – Admin.” Should I get rid of the latter account?
You're asking me? If you have everything you need in “Thomas David Kehoe – Admin,” then, yes you can delete the other account.
- Should I set every permission to “Read & Write” except “everyone”?
Nooo. Don't do that!
When you "Get Info" (command-i) on the you should have "Ignore ownership" at the bottom NOT checked.
Although, this may not be an option on internals.
- Should I run Disk Utility > First Aid > Verify Disk Permissions and Repair Disk Permissions? I ran this on SSD and it found lots of stuff to repair.
You can. As long as it reports "Permissions have been repaired" you're good to go. No need to run it more than once, it won't change. Read this.

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