Iomega Firewire/USB External NOT MOUNTING!

I have a 320Gig Iomega hard drive and i've been having some issues with it. when i try to mount it on my powerbook, it only shows as greyed out in the Disk utility, i can verify and repair, i ran the repair which took a VERY long time, and restarted, but nothing changed. ideas?

Did a repair, said nothing to repair, i guess it just takes a little while to mount these days. might be going out...not sure.

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It's nearly impossible to offer any help given the dearth of information you provided.
What Mac are you using? What external FireWire hard drive are you trying to use? Is it a FW-400 or FW-800 interface? Have you tried any other FireWire device with that computer? Have you tried that FireWire drive with any other computer?

Firewire drive will not mount on PowerBook

Firewire drive will not mount on PowerBooks
Posted: May 2, 2006 8:09 AM
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Hi All,
A friend of mine has a Titanium Powerbook G4 500's with 640mb ram and OS 10.2. She has purchased a Fantom Drive 120gb Firewire drive to back up her work. The drive will not mount on her machine. It will mount on my G5 running 10.3.9. I went to the Fantom Site, and all I could find was a link to Apple's site on Tiger.
She bought a set of Panther disks and wanted to back up all of her stuff before the upgrade.
Any help would be appreciated,
David

Thought you could use this info about getting FireWire to work!
First, you should always Repair Permissions in Disk Utility before and after any update; I would do that now. If you installed your update with FireWire plugged in, your Mac may not recognize it anymore.
Try resetting your FireWire ports by disconnecting all FW devices, shut down your Mac and unplug it from AC power (wall socket) for 30 minutes. plug it back in and try FW.
If that did'nt work, download the combo update from this site (yours may be corrupt), not Software Update, disconnect all firewire + USB devices except keyboard + mouse, Repair Permissions, re-install update, Repair Permissions again + try. Hers should be the 10.2.8 Combo update. Others reading, download the Combo that applies to your system.
If that still did'nt get it Zap the PRAM. While restarting Mac hold down the following key combo Command-Option-P-R. Keep holding those keys down till you hear the second start-up chime, then release.
For those of you with Macs that are not PowerBooks or iBooks, a bad internal battery can cause FireWire to not be recognized, so make sure it's good!
Good Luck!
Cheers!
DALE

External Firewire drive does not mount on desktop now.

Greetings everyone.
G5 dual, 4.6GB ram, OSX 10.4.10, external firewire drive, formerly worked fine, now is invisible.
Not the drive. New purchase, worked fine until a restart. Not the cable. Power is getting from the G5 to the firewire drive. Not the port. I also have a firewire card instlaled so I have three ports to connect it to (and two on the FW drive). No combination works. Not the computer, the FW drive also fails to appear on an iBook. Not the OS. I did a clean install to make sure.
I'm not a newbie. I know what I'm doing. Until now! DiskWarrior, TechTool Pro, Drive Genius and Apple's Disk Utility cannot see the drive.
The FW drive is a Powerbook internal HD inserted into a case, purchased seperately.
At my wits' end. Can anyone help please.

I am suddenly having this EXACT problem. I have two Firelite firewire drives (one 60G and one 80G) that are suddenly refusing to mount on my older dual 1.25GHz G4 tower. They are also suddenly refusing to mount on my non-intel iMac. They will both mount painlessly on my new Intel MacBook Pro, but that's not much use, since the point of the firewire drives is to transfer files between these computers. I'm updating all of them to 10.4.10 to see if that's the issue...

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My MacBook Pro is no longer displaying the drives I plug into the USB ports.
Could someone tell me what might be wrong and how to troubleshoot? It's still under warrantee, thank goodness.
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Natalie

I've noticed the Firewire bus to be less stable under Intel chips, but I'm not positive. It may be that my devices are just getting tired.
Anyhow... troubleshooting (when was the last time you cleared the PRAM?)
1. Turn off your MacBook (not restart, power off)
2. Turn it back on, wait for it to fully startup
3. With the power connected and the drive turned on, connect the Firewire drive
If it still doesn't work, can you try a different Firewire cable? I'm guessing the cable probably works fine on your iBok G4, right? If it still doesn't work, it would seem that the Firewire port is not working properly. You can also try booting up with your install DVD and see if Disk Utility can read your Firewire drive. If it does then you might need to reinstall OS X.
USB portable drive
Repeat steps 1 and 2 above
3. Plug your MacBook into AC power (my USB drive will not mount unless I plug into AC power)
4. Connect your USB drive
Again, I'm guessing this drive too works fine with your iBook?
You could try accessing the drive while booting up from the install DVD too. This should rule out whether it is a software or hardware problem.
It's a hardware problem if you can't access either the Firewire or USB drive (on AC power) while booting up from your install DVD. It's a software problem if you can.
Good luck
Greg

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I have a 500GB USB external that has decided to stop mounting on my desktop. I believe the drive is fine, as it will mount on my girlfriend's PC and the files are still on it. A different external HDD mounts just fine.
A few days ago I had trouble unmounting the HDD and also ejecting a DVD. I believe this happened after doing the SuperDrive update, but I am not positive. Also, the upgrade from 10.4.9 to 10.4.10 happened in the past couple of days.
I need this drive to store some HD video (I know USB 2.0 is not the best choice for this).
MacBook Pro C2D 2.33 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Hello! "A few days ago I had trouble unmounting the HDD"?? If you forced a dismount by removing the cable or turning the drive off when it didn't dismount the directory is probably damaged and DiskWarrior is the best at such problems. If the drive is formatted as Fat32 (which it probably is since you are using it with your girlfriend's pc) try connecting it to the pc and using the disk checker on the pc to repair the drive. Tom

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Help please!!!

Here's the strange thing. Boot up Mavericks....not mountable. Not visible in Disk Utility.
Boot up Snow Leopard. It mounts and (obviously) visible in Disk Utility.
I've tried a slightly different MyBook and that works fine and so it looks like some WD problem perhaps?

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Posted this in Tiger forum too (I know, probably not really supposed to), but I thought I'd post it here too.
I know there's nothing wrong with the drive whatsoever, because it mounts on PCs, and it mounts when booted from both other hard drives on the system, on Mac OS 9.2.2 and Mac OS 10.4.0.
I know it used to mount on 10.4.9, too. I thought maybe when I installed a 4-port USB 2 card things would resolve, but they haven't.... so I expect it's a driver (extension) issue.
I deleted a bunch of extensions a while back that I was sure I didn't need... I suppose it's possible I deleted one vital for USB HDD support on the HDD using 10.4.9, only I don't know which it would be... things were self-explanatory in the days of OS 9, not so much with OS X, it would seem.
I didn't notice it until fairly recently since I'd been networking to the external HDD via another computer as the built-in 10BT was sadly faster than the USB 1.1 card I had installed prior.
Anyway.... since I assume this is an extensions problem (it says when I turn on the drive that a certain extension is missing, but I can't remember which), can anyone tell me what particular extension it is that enables USB Hard Drives?
By the way, USB flash drives mount and run at USB 2 speeds just fine.

"AppleXsanFilter.kext"
That is likely an extension for Storage Area Networks. If your Mac is complaining about it, it probably has unsatisfied external references in some of the Mass Storage Extensions. I don't know why you would need a lot of stuff in those folders, but they are tiny. You get no payback from throwing them out.
To fix those complaints, presuming the extension is located in the correct folder, you need to repair permissions (so that the System owns it) and delete the cache files named:
extensions.kextcache
extensions.mkext
which are pre-linked versions of most of the kext files. Then your Mac will recreate the cache files with the newly fixed-up kext added.

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I have a 2GB IBM USB 2.0 memory stick and I did an 'erase' because trash wouldnt get rid of some locked files - and nothing else would. I did a 'zero - erase' and now the stick will not mount when I plug it into my computer. It says that it is not recognised and gives option to initialize or eject...
Please help as this is really useful!
Many thanks,
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Thanks for the attempt, but the disk doesnt mount at all. I tried following the guide, but it is a USB stick after all...
Any more ideas? I haven't tried putting it into a windows machine yet...
Martin

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...we found it in Disk Utility. It checked out fine there.
What exactly do you see in Disk Utility? Post a screenshot if possible.

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I have two Lacie firewire drives. 500g and 1ty. I left the studio two weeks ago and came back Started my G5 and either of the two will not mount or even be listed in Disk Utility. I have a lot of video files on these drive. Please someone help me.

It would be worth trying a reset of the SMU which, for your Mac, I think is by shutting down, disconnecting all peripherals, disconnecting the mains cable for 10 seconds and then reconnecting the mains cable while holding the power button down – followed by releasing the power button and giving it another short press to power up the Mac. See this Apple doc.
It's probably irrelevant, but you might as well also reset PRAM and NVRAM – by starting up with 4 keys held down: Command, Option, 'P' and 'R', and keeping those keys down until you hear the 3rd 'boing'. (Apple doc).
G5 2.1GHz Mac OS X (10.4.9)

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Any ideas?
Thanks a lot

I don't know much about Paragon. My inclination would be to uninstall it as a trial and see if that is the problem.
Those flash drives don't last forever, and maybe not even a few days. If you have access to another Mac see if it presents the same problems on another computer, preferably one without third party drive modifiers.
You say you have Paragon "6.5.1 "5.6.1?" installed. Do you have Paragon on your Tiger machine too? I presume we are talking about a Tiger machine somewhere here because this is the Tiger forum.
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USB Drive not mounting on Mac Pro, mounts on other Macs?

Hello.
I have a USB drive that mounts on just about every Mac (just about because I haven't tried on them all) in our studio. Intel & PPC, 10.5.6 and 10.4.11. But, when I try and mount it on my Mac Pro, it won't mount. The only difference (other than it being a Mac Pro) is that it's running 10.5.7 — though, I have an iMac at home running 10.5.7 and it mounts there no problem as well?
I've confirmed the USB ports working (all of them), but for some reason, this drive doesn't mount (can't see it in Disk Utility or other 3rd party drive utilities)?
Anyone have any suggestions?
Regards,
Kristin.

Yea, I've already tried both of those things and neither have worked.
So weird. I've read a lot of reports on these boards about 10.5.7 and USB not playing well together, but the fat that I've been able to get it to mount on a 10.5.7 machine...?
k.

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But ever since then, I cannot mount any external firewire drive or USB drive. I cannot use Time Machine to backup my disk. I think my firewire and USB ports are fine because I can restart my iMac in target mode and connect to my MacBook via firewire, so the hardwire ports are functional, except that it seems 10.5.4 cannot detect or mount any external drive after the failed software update.
Does anyone encounter similar problem? How can I fix it? I have my disk backed up by TimeMachine but I cannot restore it if it won't let me mount my TimeMachine disk. Is there any other way other than completely reinstall 10.5 from scratch?

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I've tried a few solutions I've seen online such as installing Jettison (didn't work) and making sure Spotlight isn't indexing the drives (didn't work either).
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You can boot OS X from USB2 or FireWire as well as internal drives. There are also two unused SATA ports hidden away inside that OS X can use, but Vista/XP won't see. There is a $24 kit from NewerTech to connect SATA cable, run out PCI slot adapter, and use eSATA shielded cable to a 2-drive enclosure ($67+).
I always boot from an alternate boot drive before ever doing an Mac OS update - repair the drive, do backup, other maintenance. And even sometimes apply the update from there (requires using a standalone downloaded combined update, which is preferred method). Never apply an update w/o a working bootable backup. Something that requires multiple licenses I suspect with XP/Vista.
I have external backup and restore drives for Vista, Mac OS boot drive, 2-drive RAID for Vista, and Vista boot drive.
All of my drives are GUID. Vista is 64-bit, and has some support for EFI (SP1 will bring better support for UEFI).
Disk arbitration has been updated and improved and some products even had to wait for later versions (10.4.8 introduced a number of fixes I understand). I would be more concerned with make of drives and whether they have GUID/GPL or MBR partition tables.

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