Mounting Firewire drives

If I have two external Firewire drives connected in series, one to another, and eject the first drive, will the second drive stay mounted and show on the desktop?

This is the FW info, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2952
Repeater function
The built-in repeater functionality on Apple computers with two or more ports allows FireWire data to pass between external devices through the computer. This repeater functionality is available even when the computer is in sleep mode or turned off, provided that it is connected to AC power. On a portable computer running on battery, in sleep mode, or powered off, the repeater functionality is provided if at least one FireWire device supplies power to the computer via the FireWire cable.

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So here's the deal:
I have an external hard drive (FireWire 400) which is currently connected to an iMac G4, but I am unable to mount the volume over the network and access it via WiFi on my MacBook. In other words, it does not appear in the list of mountable drives when I use the "Connect to Server" funtion of the finder. However, mounted DMG's do appear in the list - I find this to be strange.
Has anyone found a route around this? Is it even possible?
Setup (Details):
-The iMac is connected via a terrestrial network. [iMac > Hub > Modem (DHCP server, WiFi base station)]
-The MacBook is connected via an 802.11g WiFi signal. [MacBook > Modem (DHCP server, WiFi base station)]
-The hard drive is plugged into the iMac via FireWire, and is mounted on the desktop, as it always is.
-System preferences has all but "Xgrid" checked in the Sharing Pane [Both iMac and MacBook]
Thanks a bunch,
Gus
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.8) 1.83Ghz Core Duo, 512MB RAM

trying checking or unchecking the "Ignore Ownership
on this volume" box when you "get info" (file menu)
on the firewire drive.
I don't seem to have this option. It sounded promising, nonetheless... The Disk Utility also doesn't mention this.
Does it matter that it's a FAT32 volume? I hadn't thought to include this initially... If it does, and it's not possible, then I can give up, as I don't have another drive to back up to and reformat the one I'd like to use. Perhaps this will result in finally getting a dreamy LaCie drive... =)

Can't connect/mount firewire drive wirelessly

My G4 tower has all my firewire drives connected to it. I usually connect to the drives wirelessly from my macbook pro. For some reason, there's one drive that will not mount, although it appears on the G4 desktop just fine. Getting info on the drive reveals that it's a MS-DOS (Fat-32) file system, and for whatever reason, I can't change the ownership/permissions on it as with other drives.
Any ideas of things to try?

This program you recommend is fugly and complicated...
You should see the other way to do it!
Most likely...
When the 1st screen comes up, look for the Browse button, select the FAT drive, give it a Share Name, click the Windows (SMB) sharing bar & select Shared , enter your admin PW, click on "Show File System Properties", check Inherit Permissins, give the rights you need...
Any more questions after you Update Share...

Slow to mount firewire drive.

I just bought a 200 gig firewire harddrive off of ebay and it takes about 2 minutes for it to mount. I plug it in and the activity light blinks for a while before it finally shows up. It doesn't take as long when it is connected with USB but I would rather use FireWire because it's better. Does anyone have any ideas why this would take so long.

My friend I had the exact problem.
I had the maxtor One touch II I used it like one year after warranty expires the contoller chip gone.
probablly thats the problem you have or some thing different than mine.
Somethimes system cant recognize the external drive for a moment. Unplug the Firewire cable or USB cable and re-plug it. That could working for me.

Xserve Not Mounting Firewire Drive and Keyboard Not Working On KVM Switch

A couple of days ago I was swapping out my monthly firewire(800) backup to put the daily one back in place and my daily firewire backup drive will not mount. I've tried swapping out the cables, tried USB and Firewire400 with no avail. I tested the drive on my G5 and whapaa it mounted right away and the data is readable. For some reason my Xserve ignores it. I checked that the lock is in the unlock position so that's not the issue. I ran an xrdiags test last night and it came out fine. I also applied all of the latest updates. HELP!!!
Not sure if this is related, but my Xserve has begun to ignore my KVM switch so I have not direct keyboard/mouse connection. What could be the problem?
The backup drives are Western Digital My Books.

Problem fixed. Follow the instructions on this KB article:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=88338
So if you ever have these symptoms, follow the instrucions above, it works like a charm.
Thanks for your input DP.

Way to mount FireWire external HDs so I can access remotely?

This is either not possible, or I am totally looking in the wrong place. I have three FireWire external HDs that are chained, then plugged into an iMac G4 running 10.4.11, then mounted to the desktop. File sharing is on, along with Remote Access, Remote Login, etc. in the Control Panel.
I am trying to login remotely (through ftp, afp) using a MacBook Pro running 10.5 to view/copy files from the HDs, but all I am able to login to is the Home Folder of the username/password I put in - the HDs don't show up. I've tried various things, such as Virtual Folders, trying to input the path to the HDs in the address string - all to no avail.
Is there a way to mount FireWire drives so that a remote user can access them?

If you're external HDs are mounted as a local volume, that should up under Devices in the Finder window. Does it? If so, then in Preferences->Sharing->File Sharing, you should be able to add that volume as a Shared Folder. Is that what is giving you trouble? (I don't have an external HD, so can't test it).
Once you've shared that out, you should be able to connect to it via afp://, nfs://, or smb://...

External firewire drive won't mount

I've got an external Western Digital firewire drive that's been somewhat flaky recently, and today my Mac won't mount it.
When I open Disk Utilities, I can see the drive (along with the other drives daisy chained together). When I click on "mount," I get a message saying the drive can't be mounted and that I should try running disk repair. I've run both repair disk and verify disk a few, and each time it says that everything is just fine. However, the drive still won't mount.
Any thoughts about how to get the drive working again?
For what it's worth, this drive is basically my manual backup drive that I use each day just as a safety backup. I don't think I'm going to lose anything extremely important if this drive is dead or if I have to try erasing the drive, but I'd like to see if I can rescue it first before taking drastic action like that.
Thanks!

Dale,
That sounded like a brilliant thing to try. I took the drive out of the daisy chain and plugged it into the unused firewire port in the computer. I ran the repairs and crossed my fingers, but came up with the same thing
At least I've eliminated one more option. Wish I could mark your reply helpful, but I'm not seeing that option available . . .maybe I've used my "helpfuls" for one day.
Although this is PROBABLY duplicate material on this drive, I'm going to hold out for another day or so in case anybody else comes up with another brilliant idea before I take the plunge and reformat the drive.
Thanks!

External drive enclosure, USB 2 mounts, firewire invisible!

I have a venus ds3 external enclosure with a 300GB 7200rpm WD hard drive inside it. The enclosure works fine with windows and usb2, and it is also detected and mounted on usb2 on my mini (1.25ghz ppc mini). However, nothing happens when I try to use the firewire connection on the mini. In system profiler, I see:
FireWire Device Tree
FireWire Bus
Unknown Device
It is an oxford fw911 chipset, and I did run the updater to FW911V4_00_0000Release.bin, but still no firewire action. The updater saw the enclosure via firewire on my mac, but os x will not see the drive itself.
Am I doomed to using usb2? Would it still be possible to boot from this drive on usb2 instead of firewire?
mac mini Mac OS X (10.4.7) upgraded to 512MB ram

problem is
you cannot use 300 gigs as fire wire on any mac mini
the max you can use is only 200 gigs before mac os x
no longer recongnizes the drive
so you need a 200 gig hard drive sorry
Is there some documentation that you could cite on the 200gb barrier?
I'm also interested if it's a ppc-mini only problem or if it affects other systems as well.
I have a 250gig firewire drive on my wife's intel mac mini
and it works fine. Even if it only regognized on 200gig and
I didn't notice, it mounted and worked.
I now have it partitioned into 2 samller volumes. So, if it's
a problem on the PPC mac, then he should be able to
partition the drive and make it work.
I just now tried partitioning it again via usb, and made two 137gb partitions (or whatever odd number it came out to be), and it was still not recognized when I switched over to firewire.
If it turns out that john was right, and nothing over 200gb will work, can I still get some use out of the drive? Can I install applications on it or move the swap files over to it?
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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...

Mounting secondary drive from old G4 via Firewire to new iMac?

I just got my new iMac up and running (god is it gorgeous). The 'transfer files' thing in the initial install pulled all the programs and user settings from my old G4's primary drive perfectly, but the G4 has a second IDE drive in it where I kept much of the data. When I boot the G4 with the "T" held down, only the primary drive shows up on the iMac... how do I get the iMac to recognize and pull data from the other drive in the old tower?
Drew

Hi-
When I boot the G4 with the "T" held down, only the primary drive shows up on the iMac... how do I get the iMac to recognize and pull data from the other drive in the old tower?
This is a limit of firewire target mode, only the master drive will show.
If the secondary drive is bootable, connected to the master connector (end connector, not middle), and jumpered as master, you will be able to mount the drive in FTD mode.
Alternatively, copy the files from the secondary drive to the primary drive, and transfer from there.

60 GB external Firewire Drive Won't Mount

I have a 60GB external Firewire Drive that I have been using for a long time. I just turned on the computer and it won;t mount. I opened up the Disk Utility and I see that on the left side it says "57.3 GB Maxtor." I repaired permissions and verify disk. It still won't mount.
I don't want to have to erase it if possible. There are files I need on that drive. How can I get it to mount so I can grab some files off of it and move it to another drive?
Thanks in advance

Hi Edwurd,
What the message is telling you is that Disk Utility and the "underlying task," the Unix utility fsck, can't repair the volume.
Time for stronger medicine if the data is critical. There are commercial products that work differently and can recover disks when fsck can't. Look at Disk Warrior or Drive Genius. BUT... given that Disk Utility thinks it's a "non HFS volume," I wouldn't be optimistic.
If the external drive's data is unimportant - e.g., a backup you could rewrite - then see if Disk Utility can repartition and erase the drive. If only the catalog or partition map is bad, this will get you a working drive. But if you can't repartition with Disk Utility, suspect a hardware malfunction and check your warranty.
Good luck,
John

Xserve won´t mount LaCie Firewire drives

I booted our Xserve with two Lacie´s 1 TB Firewire drives attached and after the boot xserve wouldn´t mount the drives. I tried FW800 and FW400 connections, re-attach drives one-by-one, 4 different cables and also with another Xserve but still no avail.
The drives mount perfectly well on a desktop PowerMac G5 but the both of the xserve´s seems to repel the drives.
Any suggestions? our backups are running on the drives so this is kind of a urgent issue:)

of course, how stupid of me and how clever of the machine:D After unlocking the Xserve the drives mount just fine.
Thanks William, once again:)

Crashes when Firewire Drives are mounted

For some reason now Logic crashes (hangs...not responding) when i boot Logic with my one firewire drive mounted. When i unmount the drive and then boot Logic it works fine. THen i re mount it and open my project.
Is there a fix for this?

Here's what I think is going on...
You wrote:
If i boot logic and then mount the drive it works fine.
Logic keeps a file (somewhere) that remembers the most recently opened songs/projects. I think this file is corrupt. I have no idea what the file is called, where it's located, but I think it's corrupt. Bascially, when you launch Logic but the drive to which a recent song isn't mounted/not available, that song will disappear from Logic's recent song list. But I have the feeling that Logic hasn't totally forgotten about the existence of that song. So when the drive is mounted and Logic loads up, it might just be trying to find the drive where the song lives but something gets screwy in the process.
Here's what I suggest:
a) quit Logic if it's running
b) mount the drive
c) copy the entire project to your internal HD
d) launch Logic
e) open the song from your HD
f) if this works without crashing, re-save the project to your FW drive under a new name
g) go to Logic's recent song list and count the number of songs in the list. Let's say it's 20 songs in the list...
h) hold option for one second and create a NEW song (this will be Logic's "default" song)
i) save it to your FW drive as a simple song (not project) called "a"
j) now save it 20 more times, changing the name each time, i.e., "b", "c", etc. What you're attempting to do is completely clear Logic's recent song list of all previous song titles with something known to be "benign"
k) re-load your real song as saved to your FW drive in step F above
l) if this works, quit Logic without saving
m) re-boot the computer
n) make sure the FW drive is mounted
o) launch Logic and load the song from step F from the FW drive
If all that works, then I think my theory is right about the recent file list being corrupt.
If it doesn't work, well, [Elmer Fudd = ON] I twied and I twied...

Please Help! Cannot get firewire drive to mount!

Hi,
I am running 10.4.5 on a dual g5 2ghz. I cannot get my second firewire drive (lacie 160gb porsche) to mount. It has been working ok up until now and is only a few months old.. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
BTW does not show up in disk utilities or DiskWarrior either..
Many Thanks,
Ed.

Hi Ed,
look at the excellent Dale Weisshaar's advices here. It worked for me (unpluging the computer for 30 minutes).
Dual 2.3GHz G5 3GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.5) iBook G4 1GHz

Mount USB/Firewire drive from shell or cron job

Is there a way to mount a USB/Firewire drive from the shell or possibly mount it using a cron job? Here's the situation. I have a user that keeps all of her data on her desktop or in her Documents folder. I have attached a firewire drive to her PowerMac G5 (OS 10.4.6) and successfully created cron jobs to backup her entire user folder every night. The problem is that she logs off of her computer before she leaves work. When she logs of the firewire drive unmounts and the cron job fails because it cannot find the drive. I was hoping there was a way to mount the drive using a script so that it will mount, let the cron job run, and then possibly unmount the drive afterwards. Any help with this would be much appreciated.
MacMini, PowerMac G5, iMac Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Try adding the following line to the beginning of the job:
mount -a
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