Install OS 10.2.1 on Fire Wire Drive

If I purchase a Fire Wire Drive and cable, connect to my Pismo, can I install OSX 10.2.4 from a Software Install and Restore disk and use this drive for OSX activity? How should it be set up? Where can I find instructions for such a task?
Mac PowerBook G3 (Pismo), 400MHz, 10GB HD, 320MB Ram, DVD Drive, 2 USB & FireWal Mac OS 9.0.x

Homer, welcome, yes you can, however, I would highly recommend using Carbon Copy Cloner to make a bootable backup of your OS on a separate partition on that external.
Joe
Power Mac G4 Gigabit Ethernet Mac OS X (10.3.9)

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Using Photosop 7.0.1 & Mac OS X Tiger on G4 Tower with AGP Graphics.
Any Ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Tom

The drives need to be formatted as Macintosh HFS+ Extended (not Windows or FAT32, for instance), and you must have full read/write permissions to them.
Otherwise, Photoshop will not let you select them as scratch disk drives. Of course, formatting will completely erase the entire drive, so if you have anything on them you need to keep, you'll need to back it up first.
If necessary, do a Get Info (Command I) on the icon of the drive in the Finder and check "Ignore Ownership on this drive"; but first the drive needs to be formatted as Macintosh Extended.

Can't exclude an external fire wire drive

well that is pretty much it, I can't exclude an external fire wire drive from the search of spotlight I even deleted the playlist file of spotlight had no effect.
it is a WD 320GB connected via Fire wire.
I don't want spotlight looking there because it slows down the whole thing plus I know exactly what is in there.
any ideas?

Gon
I had the same problem with an external drive that powers down when idle and then takes it's time waking up for a spotlight search, thus slowing down the normally instantaneous results. I was able to get it to "stick" in the Privacy Pane and would exclude results from it, but Spotlight still seemed to need to wake it up to know that it's not part of the search
You can also set (in Energy Prefs) not to power down drives when idle, but then you're stuck with loud fan/drive noise constantly if you have such a drive, (I had a TB lacie which can get loud with drive & fan running).
But since as you say it's a drive you rarely need to access and you know what's on it, why not just connect it when you need it. I moved data I use daily to my main drive and the external drive only holds iMovie projects, installers and assorted download junk that I rarely access.
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Panther: Installation on Maxtor OneTouch II 300GB External Fire Wire Drive.

I am waiting on delivery of a Full Retail Version Panther 10.3 purchased on eBay to be installed on a Maxtor OneTouch II 300GB External FireWire drive.
Are these the steps I should take to format, partition, & properly install Panther on the external FW Drive?
I have updated my OS 9.2.2 with the latest Firmware Update Pbook 4.1.8.smi.
1. Boot (Panther) from the install disk holding down the C key.
2. Once booted go to the Installer Menu and open Disk Utility from Panther.
3. In Disk Utility select FireWire HD in left panel and Erase in main panel.
4. Be sure Volume Format is Mac OS Extended and the checkbox Mac OS 9 Drivers Installed is checked.
5. Select Options at bottom left in Erase panel. This procedure will erase the contents of the entire External Fire Wire HDD. Select option to zero all data.
6. Click OK. Click Erase.
*. After eFWD is erased. Is this when I will partition eFW Drive? I plan five (5) partitions: 1-10GB for back up of my internal HD, 1-20GB for OSX 10.3, 1-50GB for future OS, 1-100GB for Storage and the remainder GB for Storage.
*. After eFWD is partitioned.
7. Quit Disk Utility and open the Installer.
8. Choose the option to Clean Install on Partition for OSX 10.3.
9. Customize and deselect Foreign Language Translations and Additional Printer Drivers to save Hard Drive space.
10. Proceed with installation on Partition for OSX 10.3.
11. After installation is complete computer will restart. Follow prompts and set up computer.
12. Open Disk Utility (Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility) and Repair Permissions.
13. Go online and download updates, or go to Software Update under the Apple Menu and update your OS.
14.???Transfer your User Folder from Previous Systems folder. I don’t see a User Folder in my present System Folder of OS9.2.2.
15. Install on the Panther partition; MSOffice, Quicken, and TurboTax.
16. Copy or Clone to the OS 9 partition my existing internal hard drive.
I hope all that is left is to enjoy.
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Thank you for the correction and encouragement. I have changed the erase step to partition. This will be my first experience with partitioning and with OSX. After three weeks of research and discussion I am excited about using OSX and probably will change my strategy to doubling my internal HDD to 20MB, increase RAM to 512MB and install the Panther on the internal drive. If this is my goal, which OS should be put on the external FW drive first, if I want to boot OS 9 from the eFWd instead of the internal? I don’t know if Panther will open archived files produced with OS9 applications? That being the only need to have a working version of OS9. Thanks again for all the help from the discussion groups.
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Desktop does not show external Fire Wire Drive Buslink model MFW60

Running iMac fully maxed out. Have Buslink FireWire external drive, model MFW60 1394a. Purchased an adaoter plag in to connect through new Fire Wire port in back of machine. Got the drive to spin up and showed up on desktop. Tried to move a file from IMac to the Buslink and the whole system locked up. Only choice was to turn off everything . After rebooting, no Buslink showed up on the desktop. Disk utility sees it but each time I try to repair disk or even verify the disk utility is "not responding" and I am forced into" Force quit " to stop the disk utility rtask. I do have a Fire WIre USB 2 T backup external which is working fine.
Any ideas or help on getting the buslink to show up on desk top?

On the off chance, turn off Time Mschine, & add thst drive to silly Spotlight's Privacy pane.
One way to test is to Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, Test for problem in Safe Mode...
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive
Reboot, test again.
If it only does it in Regular Boot, then it could be some hardware problem like Video card, (Quartz is turned off in Safe Mode), or Airport, or some USB or Firewire device, or 3rd party add-on, Check System Preferences>Accounts (Users & Groups in later OSX versions)>Login Items window to see if it or something relevant is listed.
Check the System Preferences>Other Row, for 3rd party Pref Panes.
Also look in these if they exist, some are invisible...
/private/var/run/StartupItems
/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons
/Library/LaunchDaemons

Fire wire drive problem

Hey all,
I've got a problem when i plug in my firewire drive to my new MBP. It gives me the grey curtain of death. I've tried doing the usual like PVRAM and the PMU settings.
It started when I was trying to add a partition to the drive using disk utility. It got 90% of the way through and i got the curtain of death.
I've tried booting in Safe mode which won't appear to load, even after about 5 mins. I've tried booting of the CD, but when I plug the drive back in it just crashes again.
Basically I'd like to be able to stop it mounting so I can access it from the disk utility and try a repair. Failing that, a straight format.
Any suggestions welcome. Thanks in advance
Here is the error report:
Tue Dec 2 00:46:15 2008
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x001F9314): "jnl: mod block start: bufsize 512 not a multiple of block size 4096\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1228.8.30/bsd/vfs/vfs_journal.c:2282
Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x2a3cb2a8 : 0x12b4c9 (0x45aaac 0x2a3cb2dc 0x1335ba 0x0)
0x2a3cb2f8 : 0x1f9314 (0x46c084 0x200 0x1000 0x0)
0x2a3cb348 : 0x332719 (0x4595d10 0x2bd46c30 0x0 0x200)
0x2a3cb3e8 : 0x33bb5c (0x6037804 0x1 0x0 0x2a3cb778)
0x2a3cb7a8 : 0x334123 (0x6037804 0x476e804 0x0 0x0)
0x2a3cb8b8 : 0x335b8b (0x0 0x60459a4 0x0 0x0)
0x2a3cb9a8 : 0x1f5c6e (0x4e5b260 0x6cd7510 0xbffffdd4 0x0)
0x2a3cb9f8 : 0x1df3e8 (0x4e5b260 0x6cd7510 0xbffffdd4 0x0)
0x2a3cbf28 : 0x1dfaa9 (0x4e8804c 0x2a3cbf48 0x60458e4 0x1)
0x2a3cbf78 : 0x3df09b (0x4e8804c 0x60458a0 0x60458e4 0x0)
0x2a3cbfc8 : 0x1a0767 (0x5c738c0 0x0 0x1a30b5 0x5c738c0)
No mapping exists for frame pointer
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0xbffffe28
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: mount_hfs
Mac OS version:
9F2114
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.5.1: Fri Sep 19 16:19:24 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.8.30~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro5,1 (Mac-F42D86C8)

SOLUTION for me from a number of folks at Apple Support (thanks Tim Curry).
Booted from MBPro installation disk, (OS 10.4.9 - perhaps OS 10.5 disk would work?). Launched Disk Utility, connected the external Seagate FreeAgent Desk 1.5T via the Firewire 800, and the drive and its 3 indented partitions appeared in Disk Utility's sidebar(no kernel panic). Two of the partitions had the new names I had assigned, but the third didn't, instead was a grayed out "disk5s4". Disk Utility verified the first two partitions, but the third yielded an error message "The underlying task reported failure on exit". Tim then had me erase and reformat only that partition, and all was well. The data in the first partition was available.
I have since erased and repartitioned the drive, just to start afresh, from the MBPro 10.5.6 Disk Utility with no problems.(not the installation disk)
So, I really do not know what went wrong...at first I assumed it was me, but Seagate says here http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=204371
"Leopard (Mac OS X - 10.5) seems to be having problems reformatting external drives. This seems to be a common issue on Leopard that is seen on most brands of drives.
Note: This is not a problem with the External Drive. Rather, it is an issue with the Disk Utility found with Leopard." and goes on to suggest "Suggestions - If erasing/formatting the drive in Disk Utility fails, there are two options:
Note: If the Disk Utility Erase option fails, it may be necessary to move the external drive to a Windows system to repartition and reformat it. Click here to launch a video showing how to prepare an external drive using Windows Vista, or here for information in Windows XP.
Ensure that any/all installers (DMG) files are dismounted before trying to prepare an external drive. Simply drag these files to the Trash to proceed.
Reformat the drive on an older version of Mac OS X.
Boot off of the MacOS 10.4 DVD, access its Utilities Menu and prepare the external drive using Disk Utility.
Backup any data first, take the external drive to another Mac, launch Disk Utility and reformat the drive as Mac OS Extended or Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
If another version of Mac OS X is not available:
Open Finder > Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility
Click on the Partition tab
Click on the Current Volume Scheme drop-down menu and select One (1) partition.
Click Options. From the Partition Schemes provided:
Click on the GUID Partition Table radio button
-OR-
Click on the Apple Partition Map radio button
Click OK. Select other options as desired (e.g., Volume Name, Format, etc.).
Click Apply. The Partition Disk screen opens.
Click Partition. At this point, the volume dismounts from the desktop and the drive is partitioned and formatted.
Note: When Volumes are created, Time Machine may open asking if you would like to use the volume for backups. Click Cancel to proceed.
When finished, select the Disk Utility from the Apple Menu and choose Quit Disk Utility"
This morning, Apple http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2644?viewlocale=en_US
posted an article "Disk Utility: Unable to format disk 500 GB or larger" and gives the solution....
"Resolution
Format the disk in the following manner (as described in this article). Note: Simply erasing the drive without partitioning will not resolve the issue.
Back up your important data. Important: Partitioning a hard disk erases all data on the disk.
Open Disk Utility:
If you're started from a Mac OS X installation disc, choose Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
If you're started from your computer's Mac OS X volume, open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder. You can get there by choosing Utilities from the Finder's Go menu.
Select the disk you want to erase.
Click the Partition tab in the Disk Utility window. If the partition tab is not visible, make sure you've selected the disk (not volume) in the left side of the window.
Tip: In Disk Utility, volume names are indented on the left side of the window. Disk names are not indented.
Choose the desired number of partitions from the Volume Scheme pop-up menu. It's OK to choose "1 Partition" if you only want one.
Click Options.
Note: On some Intel-based Macs, the Options button does not appear under the partition tab. Use the erase tab to erase the disk instead. This will change the partition scheme to the default "GUID Partition Scheme". You can then use the partition tab to create additional partitions if desired.
From the Partition Scheme pop-up menu, choose "GUID Partition Scheme".
Click OK.
Make any other changes you wish in the Volume Information section, such as partition size(s) or naming.
Click the Partition button to erase your disk and install the new partition scheme."
Cheers...Thanks for everyone's help....Don

Leopard on external fire wire drive, advice needed

Recently internal HDD has failed, waiting for replacement however in the mean time purchased Lacie firewire HD and installed leopard. Works great but after a week HD gives up and cannot install/disk utility etc. from leopard cd. On my second drive now, will macbook run happily from firewire drive or are these drives not designed to be used in this way, a hard drive is a hard drive isn't it? leopard install disc seems a little fragile too or is it just me?

Thanks for reply, i have the shiny black one from UK Mac store (250GB), well HDD number two. It worked great for a week then it froze one day with iTunes like the internal drive did then just clicked and whirred no matter what i tried. In/out errors while formatting from Leopard install disc, would not allow partioning and came up with invalid node structure/ BS sub system which it tried to fix but just crashes out. However when tried at the store seemed to work ok but i could not get Leopard on there again after crash period. Perhaps it was a faulty drive? Mac store told me thay had not had returns though but i guess they would say that! I will say new drive is working now but honestly for how long?

How to change from ext fire wire drive to Time Capsule retaining all data?

When I first got my new MacBook Pro I used an external FW 800 drive for my Time Machine back-ups. I have now got myself a ITB TC and would like to use that now for Time Machine. Can I copy what was on the external FW 800 to the new TC and continue backing up from where I was?
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Hi Buzzsaw138,
Since posting, have the phones been activated and has your issue been resolved? I would still like to ask a couple of questions.
When you changed devices, did you keep the same phone numbers?
Do your old devices still work as prepaid lines?
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I have a Power Mac G5 with dual 1.8 GHz cpu's, 2.5 gigabytes of ram. Boot rom version 5.1.5f0 running OSX 4.11. And a Power PC G4
Laptop with one 1,67 Ghz cpu, with 1.5 GB of ram. Boot rom version 4.9.1f1, running OSX 10.5.7. My problem is that I can't get my new 1TB Western Digital external hard drive seen when you hold down the option key on either system?
I formatted it with a fresh OSX 10.5 I bought the family pack for the operating system so I'm legal and this was the 2nd computer to be loaded. The installation was complete but on reboot it went to my internal drive so I never was able to set up the internet settings and such to this startup drive. It will show up in finder and also under the system pref, under startup drive. So when you select it under that it still will just reboot to the internal drive?
And the option button on startup still just see's the internal drive? I've spent many days and nights trying to figure out what I've done wrong? So I ended up at a Mac store with the external hard drive and it booted up perfect! So what's up? The one thing that I noticed was a different graphic. On the option thing my computer shows up with a small drive icon and a watch looking thing that takes about 30 seconds to turn into a curser and at the mac store "bam" all drives showed up and it was larger graphic and just the curser.
So what's my problem on my other 2 systems? Possibly firmware? I tried that also and everything above the ones that I currently have says that the upgrades don't apply to my machines in some form or another? Also I assume that a 1TB drive was a pipe dream back then sooo? But the OS X updates should have taken care of that?
I have a new Imac 24 inch in a box, but I won't even open it until I can get this problem figured out! I want to condense my G4 and G5 info on a boot-able external hard drive. And I want to have my new Imac clean of all the clutter. Thanks' in advance for anyone that can help me! Even the Mac guy was baffled as-to why it wouldn't work on my other systems?

That's all correct.
However (and I've just found this), not all Western Digital drives are fully boot-compatible across both Intel and PowerPC Macs. Check out this table - you may find your drive just isn't supported:
Western Digital boot drive compatibility with Macs
Matt

Fire Wire Drive Dissappeared

Hi folks, I'm new to this so forgive me if I screw up.
I have a LaCie Big Disc Extreme (500GB) which was connected by Firewire 800 and worked fine. I did some housekeeping in a rush (don't think I did anything stupid but can't be sure), shut down and returned a couple of weeks later. The LaCie drive powered up automatically OK but did not appear on the desk top or anywhere else (it shows in System Profiler).
I followed recommendations to disconnect and reconnect I found on this site all to no avail. (Interestingly, I do get a message saying it was not correctly removed if I switch it off.) Can anyone help?
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Hi-
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
Did you follow the proceedure to reset the firewire:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=88338
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Fire Wire Drive not listed Device

There have been several similar unresolved related posts. So I'll launch in to this anew.
Powered up the Mac this evening, and my two external F/W drives did not appear on the desk top. They did not appear in the Device menu. All Cables and Power connections are correct. No recent changes Hardware of Software.
They do appear as Mounted drives when checked with Disk Utility. They Verify on problem.
The Drives seem to have been set to "Hidden" and I can not make them go back to normal. I was able to create an alias via the Finder/go/folders/volumes. But I don't want an Alias, I want my drives set back to normal.
What should I try folks?
Thanks,
Rod

Little Disk wrote:
There have been several similar unresolved related posts. So I'll launch in to this anew.
Powered up the Mac this evening, and my two external F/W drives did not appear on the desk top. They did not appear in the Device menu. All Cables and Power connections are correct. No recent changes Hardware of Software.
They do appear as Mounted drives when checked with Disk Utility. They Verify on problem.
The Drives seem to have been set to "Hidden" and I can not make them go back to normal. I was able to create an alias via the Finder/go/folders/volumes. But I don't want an Alias, I want my drives set back to normal.
What should I try folks?
Thanks,
Rod
Do you have "Show disks" switched off in the Finder Preferences?

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I reformatted the 75Gb drive to Mac OS Extended. And then tried to copy the folder back. It copied about 5OO MB and then stop with the following error message: "The finder cannot complete the operation because some data in "_file name_" could not be read or written. (Error code -36). I checked to see where the copy got to and then checked for the specified file, it was there on the source drive (250GB). I even got it to play with iTunes. But it would not copy. I skipped this file and tried to copy again, but after a short period of success the copy got hung up on another file. Therre appears to be many problem files.
I tried to use iTunes "consolidate libaray" but it hangs up as well.
I called LaCie. Their tech support suggested that I may have some file corruption as a result of copying from a "fat32" fromatted drive, which is what he believes the factory format was, to the Mac OS extended fromat drive. He suggested running another utility to discover any posiible file corruption.
Questions: What are my options on diagnosing this problem? What utilities would best evaluate the condition of the files? Are there ways to fix the files?
Can I remove the library in iTunes, tell it to use the music folder on the 250GB and then rebuild a libarary - will this help or just add another layer of complication to the process?
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If not, do any of the utilites aloow one to identify and isolate bad files in a way that they can be removed from the copying process?
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Hello Again Gordon Bennet!,
The above was the easy fix for your problem which is an I/O issue.
If you want to live on the edge, AFTER making a backup, are you are familiar with with how to use 'Console'? It's in Applications-Utilties-Console.
If so, can you access the logs and see if the sort of read error that has been logged? It is also possible (although improbable) that the OS logged a detailed message elsewhere.
Good luck and even though not "solved" here in the iSight group, you might try your HD question in Computing Hardware and under your MacMini group to see if anyone has better answer/solution.
Respectfully,
Bill Gallagher

Unmountable external fire wire drive

Hello all!
I have a serious problem. I'v been reading these posts, but no luck with my issue.
I have a Maxtor 250GB external FireWire 1 hard drive with 3 partitions on it:
/dev/disk5
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Applepartitionscheme *232.9 Gi disk5
1: Applepartitionmap 31.5 Ki disk5s1
2: Apple_Driver43 28.0 Ki disk5s2
3: Apple_Driver43 28.0 Ki disk5s3
4: AppleDriverATA 28.0 Ki disk5s4
5: AppleDriverATA 28.0 Ki disk5s5
6: Apple_FWDriver 256.0 Ki disk5s6
7: AppleDriverIOKit 256.0 Ki disk5s7
8: Apple_Patches 256.0 Ki disk5s8
9: Apple_HFS KEPEK (100) 100.0 Gi disk5s10
10: Apple_HFS ZENE (50) 50.0 Gi disk5s12
11: Apple_HFS DATA (80) 82.5 Gi disk5s14
I am not sure, what happened, but as of yesterday, this drive will not mount:
~ diskutil mountDisk /dev/disk5
One or more volume(s) failed to mount
I have tried to use DiskUtility, and the disk verification is OK on all partitions. I am, however, still unable to mount this drive.
I have successfully created a DiskImage using the DiskUtility, and I get the following error message when trying to mount the image:
Unable to attach "KEPEK (100)/dmg". (no mountable file systems)
Please, help me! I have a bunch of irreplaceable family photos on this drive, and I would like to recover them if it is possible.
All suggestions, advice, and help will be greatly appreciated!
THX all: Thot

Unable to attach "KEPEK (100)/dmg". (no mountable file systems)
This "bug" has surfaced elsewhere, and is within Leopard itself.
Trash the contents (not the folder) of System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kernelcaches folder, and the System/Library/Extensions.mkext file. Empty the trash and restart.
It may take a few moments longer to reach the desktop, as the files will be regenerated. This should allow you to mount the .dmg, and hopefully the external as well.

UFS vs. HFS+ on a fire wire drive

Is there any reason not to use UFS for an external firewire drive that is to hold general user files. HFS+ is more common but I don't like the "ignore ownership on this volume" check box on the info panel of all external drives. It turns out the check box is not present on UFS drives.

Why don't you leave it unchecked? Anyway,
That's what I'd like.
I'm looking for a way to FORCE it to always remain unchecked. The problem is that anyone can check the box and bypass owernership permissions.

HVR M15 deck when switched off causes 800 fire wire drive to un-mount

Hi
I know this was a previous posting but I couldn't see a solution to it and it has now been archived. When I'm using FCP or even when I'm not, when I switch off the HVR M15 deck it causes the Lacie drive connected via Firewire 800 to un-mount. If FCP is open the media automatically goes offline. Does anyone know a reason for this or even better a solution.
Many thanks in advance.
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