My iBook G4's HD won't mount on startup

Hi all,
First time problems with my iBook G4, and therefore, first time post here.
It all started earlier today when Firefox crashed and I rebooted in order to get it (Firefox) to reopen. When the iBook restarted, it kept hanging on a blue screen after the Apple logo/spinning wheel process.
After a few hard reboots, it eventually just began to come up with the 'Please restart your computer' message in four different languages, everytime I rebooted.
I then inserted my OS X CD to run the disk utility to repair any issues. Upon using the Frist Aid repair disk option, one error was found. "Invalid Volume Header" comes up in red text when repairing begins, but I have no idea what this means. After Repairing and Verifying the HD, I then rebooted again, to no avail. The restart computer message again. I ran disk repair again and it still found the same error and fixed it again. It seems that whenever the HD attempts to mount, the error re-appears.
I'm not sure what to do at this point. After running startup in Verbose mode, this is what comes up:
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.6.0: Tue Mar 7 1658:48 PST 2006; root:xnu-792.6.70.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC
panic: We are hanging here...
I attempted to just reinstall OS X, but when it comes to selecting the volume to install it too, there are none available. It's not recognizing my HD. I've been contemplating just reformatting the drive and doing a clean install of OS X, but I'm afraid this is what will happen when I try to install OS X, and I will have deleted all my files for no good reason.
My last resort is to just throw this out here and see if anyone can steer me in the right direction. Any help is greatly appreciated. Cheers!
- Stuart A.
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

After trying diskwarrior and any other disk utility application you can find to repair the drive I think your best bet will be to back up your data and start from scratch.
Backup by using an external enclosure or usb->ide adapter if the HD will mount that way, or try mounting it in target disk mode with another firewire mac.
I would then zero the drive and reinstall OS X.
First though, see if diskwarrior helps.

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I'm having big problems getting my USB disk to mount on startup.:(
It used to work perfectly by having 'mount /dev/sdc1 /media/disk' in rc.local (and umount in local.shutdown) but recently it started saying that 'filesystem type must be defined' (or something like that). So I changed the line to 'mount -t ext3 /dev/sdc1 /media/disk' but now I get a message that '/dev/sdc1 does not exist'.
So I decided to get this fixed in fstab once and for all.
I checked the designations of the disks with 'fdisk -l' and noticed that the USB disk would alternate between /dev/sdc, /dev/sde and /dev/sdd quite random on every reboot. In other words I couldn't mount it in fstab by using one of those paths cause I'd get the same problem with '/dev/sdc or -e or -d does not exist'. I figured the sollution must be to mount the disk by using UUID. I checked the uuid's and got the following (as you can see the USB disk is on this reboot registered as '/dev/sde'):
bash-3.2$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-02-07 11:56 6cf5e803-429a-44c3-bcf9-0f007df623f3 -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-02-07 11:56 8ef6be20-ee30-4a00-8946-56a4d94a7245 -> ../../sda3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-02-07 11:56 947b3b86-8501-4011-9da2-4de45eb4ed60 -> ../../sda2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-02-07 11:56 94911fb3-def7-4440-b6a5-5e09f91b19f6 -> ../../sde1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-02-07 11:56 acd197d3-f63e-48f9-88de-41eff1b3b425 -> ../../sda4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-02-07 11:56 b6745703-bde6-44ef-865d-d09501ecc8ab -> ../../sdb1
I other words the UUID of the disk should be '94911fb3-def7-4440-b6a5-5e09f91b19f6' so I added that to the fstab file, but I still get the same error that the disk doesn't exist. How is this possible? Isn't the UUID supposed to be the same no matter what? When the disk is clearly labeled with this UUID every time I check it why can't it be used in fstab??
Here's my fstab (I've commented out the lines that I've been trying out):
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd udf ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda2 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda3 /var reiserfs defaults 0 1
/dev/sda4 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sdb1 /extra ext3 defaults 0 1
#/dev/sdc1 /media/disk defaults 0 0
#UUID=94911fb3-def7-4440-b6a5-5e09f91b19f6 /media/disk defaults 0 0
What am I doing wrong here? I've also tried to use different options like 'rw,auto,exec' but it won't work.

It seems I'm able to mount the disk from the terminal by doing '# sudo mount UUID=94911fb3-def7-4440-b6a5-5e09f91b19f6 /media/disk'.
But this only works when I do it manually. Adding 'mount UUID=94911fb3-def7-4440-b6a5-5e09f91b19f6 /media/disk' to rc.local only gives the error that filesystem must be defined and when it's defined I get the error that device is not found.
How can it work manually, but not in fstab or rc.local?
Here's my dmesg:
BIOS EBDA/lowmem at: 0009f800/0009f400
Linux version 2.6.28-ARCH (root@T-POWA-LX) (gcc version 4.3.3 (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Feb 2 22:22:59 UTC 2009
KERNEL supported cpus:
Intel GenuineIntel
AMD AuthenticAMD
NSC Geode by NSC
Cyrix CyrixInstead
Centaur CentaurHauls
Transmeta GenuineTMx86
Transmeta TransmetaCPU
UMC UMC UMC UMC
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f400 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007fef0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000007fef0000 - 000000007fef3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000007fef3000 - 000000007ff00000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
DMI 2.4 present.
Phoenix BIOS detected: BIOS may corrupt low RAM, working it around.
last_pfn = 0x7fef0 max_arch_pfn = 0x100000
x86 PAT enabled: cpu 0, old 0x7040600070406, new 0x7010600070106
Scanning 0 areas for low memory corruption
modified physical RAM map:
modified: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000010000 (reserved)
modified: 0000000000010000 - 000000000009f400 (usable)
modified: 000000000009f400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
modified: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
modified: 0000000000100000 - 000000007fef0000 (usable)
modified: 000000007fef0000 - 000000007fef3000 (ACPI NVS)
modified: 000000007fef3000 - 000000007ff00000 (ACPI data)
modified: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
modified: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
kernel direct mapping tables up to 377fe000 @ 10000-16000
RAMDISK: 7fe0e000 - 7fedf2e4
Allocated new RAMDISK: 0055f000 - 006302e4
Move RAMDISK from 000000007fe0e000 - 000000007fedf2e3 to 0055f000 - 006302e3
ACPI: RSDP 000F8600, 0014 (r0 HP-CPC)
ACPI: RSDT 7FEF3040, 0038 (r1 HP-CPC AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD 0)
ACPI: FACP 7FEF30C0, 0084 (r2 HP-CPC AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD 0)
ACPI: DSDT 7FEF31C0, 3C55 (r1 HP-CPC AWRDACPI 1000 MSFT 100000E)
ACPI: FACS 7FEF0000, 0040
ACPI: SSDT 7FEF6F40, 01CA (r1 HP-CPC POWERNOW 1 LTP 1)
ACPI: SRAT 7FEF7180, 00A0 (r1 HP-CPC HAMMER 1 AMD 1)
ACPI: MCFG 7FEF7280, 003C (r1 HP-CPC AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD 0)
ACPI: APIC 7FEF6E80, 0068 (r1 HP-CPC AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD 0)
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
1158MB HIGHMEM available.
887MB LOWMEM available.
mapped low ram: 0 - 377fe000
low ram: 00000000 - 377fe000
bootmap 00012000 - 00018f00
(9 early reservations) ==> bootmem [0000000000 - 00377fe000]
#0 [0000000000 - 0000001000] BIOS data page ==> [0000000000 - 0000001000]
#1 [0000001000 - 0000002000] EX TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000001000 - 0000002000]
#2 [0000006000 - 0000007000] TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000006000 - 0000007000]
#3 [0000100000 - 000055b520] TEXT DATA BSS ==> [0000100000 - 000055b520]
#4 [000055c000 - 000055f000] INIT_PG_TABLE ==> [000055c000 - 000055f000]
#5 [000009f400 - 0000100000] BIOS reserved ==> [000009f400 - 0000100000]
#6 [0000010000 - 0000012000] PGTABLE ==> [0000010000 - 0000012000]
#7 [000055f000 - 00006302e4] NEW RAMDISK ==> [000055f000 - 00006302e4]
#8 [0000012000 - 0000019000] BOOTMAP ==> [0000012000 - 0000019000]
found SMP MP-table at [c00f46e0] 000f46e0
Zone PFN ranges:
DMA 0x00000010 -> 0x00001000
Normal 0x00001000 -> 0x000377fe
HighMem 0x000377fe -> 0x0007fef0
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges
0: 0x00000010 -> 0x0000009f
0: 0x00000100 -> 0x0007fef0
On node 0 totalpages: 523903
free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c0406600, node_mem_map c1000200
DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
DMA zone: 3951 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 1744 pages used for memmap
Normal zone: 221486 pages, LIFO batch:31
HighMem zone: 2318 pages used for memmap
HighMem zone: 294372 pages, LIFO batch:31
Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap
SB4X0 revision 0x11
Ignoring ACPI timer override.
If you got timer trouble try acpi_use_timer_override
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x4008
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 33, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
ACPI: BIOS IRQ0 pin2 override ignored.
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 21 low level)
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
SMP: Allowing 2 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000
PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000f0000
PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000
Allocating PCI resources starting at 80000000 (gap: 7ff00000:60100000)
PERCPU: Allocating 36864 bytes of per cpu data
NR_CPUS: 16, nr_cpu_ids: 2, nr_node_ids 1
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 519809
Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda2 ro quiet
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
Fast TSC calibration using PIT
Detected 2188.552 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
console [tty0] enabled
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Scanning for low memory corruption every 60 seconds
Memory: 2072040k/2096064k available (2227k kernel code, 22632k reserved, 1026k data, 332k init, 1186760k highmem)
virtual kernel memory layout:
fixmap : 0xffee8000 - 0xfffff000 (1116 kB)
pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB)
vmalloc : 0xf7ffe000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 120 MB)
lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xf77fe000 ( 887 MB)
.init : 0xc0433000 - 0xc0486000 ( 332 kB)
.data : 0xc032cfd9 - 0xc042db5c (1026 kB)
.text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc032cfd9 (2227 kB)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...Ok.
SLUB: Genslabs=12, HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=2, Nodes=1
Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 4378.48 BogoMIPS (lpj=7295173)
Security Framework initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ACPI: Core revision 20080926
ACPI: Checking initramfs for custom DSDT
..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=0 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
CPU0: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ stepping 01
Booting processor 1 APIC 0x1 ip 0x6000
Initializing CPU#1
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4379.66 BogoMIPS (lpj=7295468)
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 1
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
x86 PAT enabled: cpu 1, old 0x7040600070406, new 0x7010600070106
CPU1: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ stepping 01
Brought up 2 CPUs
Total of 2 processors activated (8757.15 BogoMIPS).
net_namespace: 768 bytes
Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: MCFG configuration 0: base e0000000 segment 0 buses 0 - 255
PCI: MCFG area at e0000000 reserved in E820
PCI: Using MMCONFIG for extended config space
PCI: Using configuration type 1 for base access
ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: No dock devices found.
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
pci 0000:00:00.0: reg 18 io port: [0x4100-0x411f]
pci 0000:00:00.0: reg 1c 64bit mmio: [0xe0000000-0xffffffff]
pci 0000:00:02.0: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold
pci 0000:00:02.0: PME# disabled
pci 0000:00:12.0: reg 10 io port: [0xfe00-0xfe07]
pci 0000:00:12.0: reg 14 io port: [0xfd00-0xfd03]
pci 0000:00:12.0: reg 18 io port: [0xfc00-0xfc07]
pci 0000:00:12.0: reg 1c io port: [0xfb00-0xfb03]
pci 0000:00:12.0: reg 20 io port: [0xfa00-0xfa0f]
pci 0000:00:12.0: reg 24 32bit mmio: [0xfe02f000-0xfe02f1ff]
pci 0000:00:12.0: reg 30 32bit mmio: [0x000000-0x07ffff]
pci 0000:00:12.0: supports D1 D2
pci 0000:00:13.0: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0xfe02e000-0xfe02efff]
pci 0000:00:13.1: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0xfe02d000-0xfe02dfff]
pci 0000:00:13.2: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0xfe02c000-0xfe02cfff]
pci 0000:00:13.2: supports D1 D2
pci 0000:00:13.2: PME# supported from D0 D1 D2 D3hot
pci 0000:00:13.2: PME# disabled
pci 0000:00:14.0: reg 10 io port: [0x500-0x50f]
pci 0000:00:14.0: reg 14 32bit mmio: [0xfe02b000-0xfe02b3ff]
HPET not enabled in BIOS. You might try hpet=force boot option
pci 0000:00:14.1: reg 10 io port: [0x00-0x07]
pci 0000:00:14.1: reg 14 io port: [0x00-0x03]
pci 0000:00:14.1: reg 18 io port: [0x00-0x07]
pci 0000:00:14.1: reg 1c io port: [0x00-0x03]
pci 0000:00:14.1: reg 20 io port: [0xf800-0xf80f]
pci 0000:01:00.0: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0xfa000000-0xfaffffff]
pci 0000:01:00.0: reg 14 64bit mmio: [0xd0000000-0xdfffffff]
pci 0000:01:00.0: reg 1c 64bit mmio: [0xfb000000-0xfbffffff]
pci 0000:01:00.0: reg 24 io port: [0xef00-0xef7f]
pci 0000:01:00.0: reg 30 32bit mmio: [0x000000-0x01ffff]
pci 0000:00:02.0: bridge io port: [0xe000-0xefff]
pci 0000:00:02.0: bridge 32bit mmio: [0xfa000000-0xfcffffff]
pci 0000:00:02.0: bridge 64bit mmio pref: [0xd0000000-0xdfffffff]
pci 0000:02:01.0: reg 10 io port: [0xdf00-0xdfff]
pci 0000:02:01.0: supports D1 D2
pci 0000:02:03.0: reg 10 io port: [0xde00-0xdeff]
pci 0000:02:03.0: reg 14 32bit mmio: [0xfdeff000-0xfdeff0ff]
pci 0000:02:03.0: reg 30 32bit mmio: [0x000000-0x00ffff]
pci 0000:02:03.0: supports D1 D2
pci 0000:02:03.0: PME# supported from D1 D2 D3hot D3cold
pci 0000:02:03.0: PME# disabled
pci 0000:02:04.0: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0xfdefe000-0xfdefe7ff]
pci 0000:02:04.0: reg 14 io port: [0xdd00-0xdd7f]
pci 0000:02:04.0: supports D2
pci 0000:02:04.0: PME# supported from D2 D3hot D3cold
pci 0000:02:04.0: PME# disabled
pci 0000:00:14.4: transparent bridge
pci 0000:00:14.4: bridge io port: [0xd000-0xdfff]
pci 0000:00:14.4: bridge 32bit mmio: [0xfde00000-0xfdefffff]
pci 0000:00:14.4: bridge 32bit mmio pref: [0xfdd00000-0xfddfffff]
bus 00 -> node 0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P2P_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 10 11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 3: can't allocate resource
NetLabel: Initializing
NetLabel: domain hash size = 128
NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default
pnp: PnP ACPI init
ACPI: bus type pnp registered
pnp 00:09: mem resource (0xf0000-0xf3fff) overlaps 0000:00:00.0 BAR 3 (0x0-0x1fffffff), disabling
pnp 00:09: mem resource (0xf4000-0xf7fff) overlaps 0000:00:00.0 BAR 3 (0x0-0x1fffffff), disabling
pnp 00:09: mem resource (0xf8000-0xfbfff) overlaps 0000:00:00.0 BAR 3 (0x0-0x1fffffff), disabling
pnp 00:09: mem resource (0xfc000-0xfffff) overlaps 0000:00:00.0 BAR 3 (0x0-0x1fffffff), disabling
pnp 00:09: mem resource (0x0-0x9ffff) overlaps 0000:00:00.0 BAR 3 (0x0-0x1fffffff), disabling
pnp 00:09: mem resource (0x100000-0x7feeffff) overlaps 0000:00:00.0 BAR 3 (0x0-0x1fffffff), disabling
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 10 devices
ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
system 00:01: ioport range 0x228-0x22f has been reserved
system 00:01: ioport range 0x40b-0x40b has been reserved
system 00:01: ioport range 0x4d6-0x4d6 has been reserved
system 00:01: ioport range 0xc00-0xc01 has been reserved
system 00:01: ioport range 0xc14-0xc14 has been reserved
system 00:01: ioport range 0xc50-0xc52 has been reserved
system 00:01: ioport range 0xc6c-0xc6d has been reserved
system 00:01: ioport range 0xc6f-0xc6f has been reserved
system 00:01: ioport range 0xcd4-0xcdf has been reserved
system 00:01: ioport range 0x4000-0x40fe has been reserved
system 00:01: ioport range 0x4210-0x4217 has been reserved
system 00:06: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
system 00:06: ioport range 0x800-0x87f has been reserved
system 00:08: iomem range 0xe0000000-0xefffffff has been reserved
system 00:09: iomem range 0x7ff00000-0x7fffffff has been reserved
system 00:09: iomem range 0x7fef0000-0x7fefffff could not be reserved
system 00:09: iomem range 0xffff0000-0xffffffff has been reserved
system 00:09: iomem range 0xfec00000-0xfec00fff has been reserved
system 00:09: iomem range 0xfee00000-0xfee00fff has been reserved
system 00:09: iomem range 0xfff80000-0xfffeffff has been reserved
pci 0000:00:02.0: PCI bridge, secondary bus 0000:01
pci 0000:00:02.0: IO window: 0xe000-0xefff
pci 0000:00:02.0: MEM window: 0xfa000000-0xfcffffff
pci 0000:00:02.0: PREFETCH window: 0x000000d0000000-0x000000dfffffff
pci 0000:00:14.4: PCI bridge, secondary bus 0000:02
pci 0000:00:14.4: IO window: 0xd000-0xdfff
pci 0000:00:14.4: MEM window: 0xfde00000-0xfdefffff
pci 0000:00:14.4: PREFETCH window: 0x000000fdd00000-0x000000fddfffff
pci 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64
bus: 00 index 0 io port: [0x00-0xffff]
bus: 00 index 1 mmio: [0x000000-0xffffffff]
bus: 01 index 0 io port: [0xe000-0xefff]
bus: 01 index 1 mmio: [0xfa000000-0xfcffffff]
bus: 01 index 2 mmio: [0xd0000000-0xdfffffff]
bus: 01 index 3 mmio: [0x0-0x0]
bus: 02 index 0 io port: [0xd000-0xdfff]
bus: 02 index 1 mmio: [0xfde00000-0xfdefffff]
bus: 02 index 2 mmio: [0xfdd00000-0xfddfffff]
bus: 02 index 3 io port: [0x00-0xffff]
bus: 02 index 4 mmio: [0x000000-0xffffffff]
NET: Registered protocol family 2
Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 1
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
Unpacking initramfs... done
Freeing initrd memory: 836k freed
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: disabled - APM is not SMP safe.
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
msgmni has been set to 1732
alg: No test for stdrng (krng)
Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 254)
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
pci 0000:00:00.0: MSI quirk detected; MSI disabled
pci 0000:01:00.0: Boot video device
pcieport-driver 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64
pcieport-driver 0000:00:02.0: found MSI capability
pci_express 0000:00:02.0:pcie00: allocate port service
pci_express 0000:00:02.0:pcie01: allocate port service
pci_express 0000:00:02.0:pcie03: allocate port service
aer 0000:00:02.0:pcie01: AER service couldn't init device: no _OSC support
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Serial: 8250/16550 driver4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0
PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
cpuidle: using governor ladder
cpuidle: using governor menu
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
registered taskstats version 1
Freeing unused kernel memory: 332k freed
SCSI subsystem initialized
libata version 3.00 loaded.
pata_acpi 0000:00:12.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
pata_acpi 0000:00:14.1: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
scsi0 : pata_atiixp
scsi1 : pata_atiixp
ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xf800 irq 14
ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xf808 irq 15
ata2.00: ATAPI: HP DVD Writer 740b, ED24, max UDMA/33
ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM HP DVD Writer 740b ED24 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
sata_sil 0000:00:12.0: version 2.3
scsi2 : sata_sil
scsi3 : sata_sil
ata3: SATA max UDMA/100 mmio m512@0xfe02f000 tf 0xfe02f080 irq 22
ata4: SATA max UDMA/100 mmio m512@0xfe02f000 tf 0xfe02f0c0 irq 22
ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata3.00: ATA-8: SAMSUNG HD501LJ, CR100-10, max UDMA7
ata3.00: 976773168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata4.00: ATA-7: WDC WD2500JS-60MHB1, 10.02E01, max UDMA/100
ata4.00: 488397168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48
ata4.00: configured for UDMA/100
scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA SAMSUNG HD501LJ CR10 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WD2500JS-60M 10.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: irq 19, io mem 0xfe02c000
Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors: (500 GB/465 GiB)
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors: (500 GB/465 GiB)
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
sda:<6>ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: irq 19, io mem 0xfe02e000
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: irq 19, io mem 0xfe02d000
sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors: (250 GB/232 GiB)
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors: (250 GB/232 GiB)
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
sdb: sdb1
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
usb 1-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
usb 1-7: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
rtc_cmos 00:03: RTC can wake from S4
rtc_cmos 00:03: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0
rtc0: alarms up to one month, 242 bytes nvram
usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28
8139too 0000:02:03.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xf8182000, 00:13:d3:88:fb:ec, IRQ 20
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 61
lirc_mceusb2: Philips eHome USB IR Transceiver and Microsoft MCE 2005 Remote Control driver for LIRC $Revision: 1.44 $
lirc_mceusb2: Daniel Melander <[email protected]>, Martin Blatter <[email protected]>
usbcore: registered new interface driver lirc_mceusb2
usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
C-Media PCI 0000:02:01.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
input: Power Button (FF) as /class/input/input1
usb 3-1: reset full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
input: Power Button (CM) as /class/input/input2
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
processor ACPI_CPU:00: registered as cooling_device0
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states)
processor ACPI_CPU:01: registered as cooling_device1
ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 8 throttling states)
lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 0
lirc_mceusb2[2]: Philips eHome Infrared Transceiver on usb3:2
usb 3-2: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3
usb 3-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 3-4: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4
usb 3-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Linux agpgart interface v0.103
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
scsi 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
input: Logitech HID compliant keyboard as /class/input/input3
generic-usb 0003:046D:C30E.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Logitech HID compliant keyboard] on usb-0000:00:13.0-2/input0
parport_pc 00:07: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,EPP]
input: Logitech HID compliant keyboard as /class/input/input4
generic-usb 0003:046D:C30E.0002: input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Device [Logitech HID compliant keyboard] on usb-0000:00:13.0-2/input1
input: Microsoft Microsoft 5-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM) as /class/input/input5
generic-usb 0003:045E:0047.0003: input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft 5-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM)] on usb-0000:00:13.1-2/input0
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
usbhid: v2.6:USB HID core driver
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
piix4_smbus 0000:00:14.0: SMBus Host Controller at 0x500, revision 0
Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input6
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 5
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb-storage: device found at 4
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
ohci1394 0000:02:04.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[21] MMIO=[fdefe000-fdefe7ff] Max Packet=[2048] IR/IT contexts=[4/8]
Error: Driver 'pcspkr' is already registered, aborting...
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
nvidia 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
nvidia 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 180.22 Tue Jan 6 09:29:08 PST 2009
EXT3 FS on sda2, internal journal
ReiserFS: sda3: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: sda3: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: sda3: journal params: device sda3, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: sda3: checking transaction log (sda3)
ReiserFS: sda3: Using r5 hash to sort names
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on sda4, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on sdb1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0010dc0000bc42b8]
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic USB SD Reader 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
scsi 5:0:0:1: Direct-Access Generic USB CF Reader 1.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access ST316002 3A 8.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
sd 5:0:0:1: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 5:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
scsi 5:0:0:2: Direct-Access Generic USB SM Reader 1.02 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors: (160 GB/149 GiB)
sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off
sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors: (160 GB/149 GiB)
sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off
sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through
sde: sde1
sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] Attached SCSI disk
sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
sd 5:0:0:2: [sdf] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 5:0:0:2: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 0
scsi 5:0:0:3: Direct-Access Generic USB MS Reader 1.03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
sd 5:0:0:3: [sdg] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 5:0:0:3: Attached scsi generic sg7 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on sde1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
TCP(wget:15427): Application bug, race in MSG_PEEK.
TCP(wget:18681): Application bug, race in MSG_PEEK.
TCP(wget:4122): Application bug, race in MSG_PEEK.
TCP(wget:4275): Application bug, race in MSG_PEEK.
TCP(wget:19451): Application bug, race in MSG_PEEK.

IBook G3 - DMG files won't mount!

I recently acquired an iBook G3 Clamshell (366 mhz) with Tiger (10.4.11) installed on it.
I can't seem to download dmg files, as I get a 'Mounting Failed' error. I have tried creating a new admin, no luck. Unfortunately, the computer didn't come with the Tiger install cd's. I have also tried verifying and repairing the disk permissions with no luck.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Well, now I can't get it to safe boot. I've done it before, no problem but it won't work, now. I restarted, holding the Shift key, and it never would start after 10 minutes or so but the fan just kept getting louder and louder. I tried it 3 times. Then I tried booting from the Disk Warrior CD and it took 3 tries before it finally booted off the CD—I would hold the C key and it would just sit there and not start up and all of the sudden the restart gong would go off, I'd still hold the C key and it did this 3 times before it finally started from the Disk Warrior CD.
Did you want me to try moving those files off to the desktop even though I can't restart in safe boot or run disk utility?
I'm gonna call it a night for now. Maybe I can try the safe boot again tomorrow. How long do you think I should hold down the shift key before I give up?
Thanks again!

USB hard drive won't mount on startup

I recently (2 days ago) purchased a new 21.5" iMac (mid 2011). Yesterday I installed the update to 10.6.8, and since then have had an unusual problem. I own two external USB drives. One for Time Machine, and another that houses my iTunes library. Both are formated to Mac File System (Journaled). When I originally set up the computer, and completed the transfer of my data and accounts from my old Mac, both of the external drives mounted on the desktop exactly as they should and everything worked without issue. But then I did a Software update, which installed a bunch of updates to iTunes, Java, etc. This update included the update which took the system from 10.6.6 to 10.6.8. Now whenever I reboot the computer, the drive that houses my iTunes library will not mount when my desktop loads. I have to reach around the computer and physically disconnect and reconnect the USB cable before the computer will recognize the volume. Disk Utility won't even see it until I do this. Once I reconnect the cable, the drive works as it should until I reboot again, and I have to disconnect/reconnect the cable again to get it to work.
I don't believe this is a problem with the hard drive itself, because it worked as it should up until the software update, and it continues to work as it should on the old computer that it was hooked up to before I upgraded.
I have searched google, and apple.com for similar situations and I have come up empty. Is there anyone who might have any ideas on how to fix this? it's rather annoying to reconnect the drive each and every time I turn on the computer.
Thanks!

Repair Disk Permissions on the internal HD and also on the EHDs. Then do restart in Safe Mode and then do both SMC and PRAM resets.
SMC RESET
Shut down the computer.
Unplug the computer's power cord and all peripherals.
Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds.
Release the power button.
Attach the computers power cable.
Press the power button to turn on the computer.
PRAM RESET
Shut down the computer.
Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
Turn on the computer.
Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.
Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
Release the keys.
Roger

WD External HDD won't mount on iBook G4; no problem mounting on Macbook Pro

I've had a WD My Passport 320 GB drive for about 8 months using it as a Time Machine backup drive for my MacBook Pro. I put some files on there that I want to transfer to my wife's iBook G4 (12 inch, 1.33 GHz) but it simply won't mount. It sounds like the external hard drive performs one revolution and then clicks. It doesn't really start up. Can't locate in disk utility ever on the iBook.
I was wondering if maybe the iBook G4 didn't provide enough power through the USB ports since this is a portable external drive and hence relies on the computer for its power.
If anybody has any insight as to how I can fix this problem, it would be greatly appreciated.
We are looking to purchase a new hard drive for myself, and I was planning on giving the old one to my wife for her own use, but if it won't work, then I may have to re-think this one. Thanks.
Message was edited by: clarity23

If the port power is insufficient for the iBook to run an external hard disk drive,
you may have to connect the unit through a self-powered (AC adapter) USB
2.0 Hub. This would be able to supplement port power for external devices.
Also, depending on the uses, some drives have different results when used
with or in older Macs. And, as a side-note, what partitioning scheme was used
on that WD External HDD? This shouldn't be so important on a non-boot drive.
If the WD was partitioned in something other than HFS+ (or WIN-DOS) it may
have a hard time being seen by the iBook; though port power issues are likely.
The external drive likely pulls a bit more power than the computer ports allow.
With my iBook G4, when used on a desktop, it has its own powered USB setup
and keyboard, mouse, plus printer (or wireless Airport with printer, etc.)
A good tool to have on hand is a 4GB or larger USB flash drive for simple transfers.
Good luck & happy computing!

Fantom external hard drive won't mount

I am using an imac G3 with OS 10.3.9. Until yesterday my Fantom external hard drive mounted. I dismounted it and turned it off. I went to turn it back on later and it won't mount. I selected initialize from the dialogue box that says it won't mount and when disk utility comes up it show the two icons for the internal hard drive and just one for the external so I can't do anything with it. Thanks for your help.
imac Mac OS X (10.3.9)
imac Mac OS X (10.3.9)
imac Mac OS X (10.3.9)

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. Yours is the 10.3.9 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
p.s. Hi to you too Sherry! Keep up the good work!

External Hard Drive Won't Mount in 10.2.8

Greetings,
I have a MacBook Pro running the latest version of Tiger. I have a Maxtor 300 GB external hard drive (Mac OS Extended [journaled] ) which I use with my MacBook to store music, video, other media, and backups. I connect that drive to my MacBook via FireWire, normally, but the drive can also do USB.
Since wireless connectivity is so nice, I thought it would be nice to be able to access that hard drive from anywhere in my apartment, without being tethered to the drive by a FireWire cable.
Enter my wife's iBook G3 and Mac OS 10.2.8.
She has this computer from her school where she teaches. It has a G3 processor running at 600 mhz with 128 mb of ram. Since she rarely uses the old machine, I wanted to use it to "serve" my external hard drive to my MacBook.
But when I connect the hard drive to the iBook via either USB or FireWire, it does not mount. I ran Disk Utility and the drive is visible in the pane on the left of the interface, but when I verify the disk I get lots of error messages that say, "Reserved fields in the catalog record have incorrect data."
I don't want to let the iBook repair the disk because I am afraid it my screw the whole thing up and I would lose all my data...not a good proposition.
So, my question: What is going on here? Is this drive simply not going to work with 10.2.8?
I wish I could upgrade the machine to Tiger, but it does not have the minimum system requirements!
Thank you very much for your help. I apologize if I missed something else in the forums that addressed this same issue.
Macbook Pro 2.0 Ghz Intel Core Duo 1 GB Ram 15.4" LCD Mac OS X (10.4.7)

All you need to upgrade the iBook for Tiger is another 128 MBs of RAM. It has both Firewire and USB ports. You do want to upgrade it for what you plan to do. The problem you may continue to have, however, may be due to the fact that the age of the computer is such the disk controller does not support hard drive volumes larger than 128 GBs, which is probably the reason the drive won't mount.
The reason you get DU errors is likely because the drive was formatted using the Intel Tiger version of DU, while you were using the Jaguar version. That's a definite no-no.

Hard drive won't mount - but only on one Macbook Pro

Hi guys
So I have a brand new Macbook Pro 2.4 with retina and 8gb (like 2 days old). I'm on Mavericks. This question also concerns a Lacie Rugged USB3 1TB drive, it is bus power only.
My lacie won't mount on my new mac. An identical lacie will, as will a few older other lacie drives I use for archiving and occassional long term backups. I've checked this unmountable drive on 8 different macs (friends, work, mothers) everything from other imacs, to old G5 power pcs, and even my mums ancient ibook g4. They'll all mount it. My macbook pro wont.
* It's nothing to do with ports (all ports work and power various devices) and cables (different cables also do not work, and they work with other drives).
* It does not appear in disk utility
* It does not appear in the system profiler/report even though the ports show up no trouble
* the drive powers and spins up
* i've even just formatted the drive on another computer in extended journal and it still does not appear yet will still mount on another machine
I'm tearing my hair out. Help me! Does anyone have any idea's what the **** is up with this thing?
Thanks

Liam Maloney1
They'll all mount it. My macbook pro wont.
typical behavior of a SATA bridge dying
80% likelihood you have a dying SATA bridge card
see here for all info on same:
Your dead external hard drive is likely fine! Great hope for your 'faulty' external HD

External hard drive suddenly won't mount

Although I've not had a problem with this drive in the past, it all of a sudden won't mount. It has all my music on and stalled while I was using iTunes, the timer wheel came up and was still the same after 20 minutes so I closed down. Now the drive won't mount at all so I can't even try repairing the disk. I've tried swapping from firewire to USB cables and also going through a hub, neither have worked.
It's a Lacie and the power light stays continuously orange on it and it feels like it's working overtime.
PLEASE HELP!

A little bit more on this... I looked at the instructions for the Lacie and it said that some smaller laptops may require a power cable via a USB port and back into the Lacie, which now works but I'm wondering why this has happened all of a sudden and can I rectify it??
I've deleted a load of stuff off my ibook hard drive, like photos etc, thinking that would help but it hasn't. Plus, I've recently installed an extra 1gb power card.
What can I do to avoid having to plug all these peripherals in to access my music?

External Drive Won't Mount

My external backup drive wont mount automatically as it used to with my earlier ibook. I have to re-boot computer to get it to mount. After that it functions properly until the next time I turn it on to do a backup.
I am wondering if there is something in the formatting of this drive which is causing this? I have formatted it a few times since this started to happen but obviously without fixing the problem

Further Details:
1) After normal use of computer connect and turn on external drive. Drive does not mount.
2) Re-boot computer and turn on drive. Drive mounts.
3) Eject drive. Turn off drive. Turn on drive again - drive mounts.
4) Run SuperDuper backup. eject drive. turn off drive. turn on drive - drive mounts.
Thus, it seems (see (1) above), something in the normal use of the computer (not an artifact of the superduper backup process) over a period of time affects the system such that the drive won't mount again.

External drive won't mount. Options?

Hi everyone. I've used a LaCie 250GB D2 external hard drive for a little over two years with no problems. A few days ago, I bought a Western Digital 500GB drive to serve as my main external drive, so I decided to erase and reformat the LaCie drive, which I had previously partitioned into two volumes, to serve as an archive drive.
That's where my trouble started.
I deleted all my files off the drive and then selected Erase in Disk Utility. I checked the option to eight way random write over format the disk for increased security, but that seemed to be taking so long I just quit Disk Utility. I figured since I didn't have any data I was afraid of losing, it wouldn't be a problem.
The next day I tried to erase it again, but I got an error message that said something about my partition (sorry but I can't recall what the message was; at this point I still didn't think there would be any problem).
Yesterday night, I tried again to erase and reformat the disk. I selected the option to zero all data because I thought that might solve any hard-to-fix problems. I left Disk Utility running overnight and all day today--about 20 hours in all-- but the progress bar showed no progress. None.
Now, as of this evening, I can't get the drive to mount at all. When I plug the drive in (and I've tried all three interfaces), the blue activity light starts blinking and I can hear it spin for a little while. It eventually stops spinning but the light keeps blinking.
I've tried unplugging the drive and plugging it back in. Nothing. I own DiskWarrior, but as far as I can tell there's nothing DiskWarrior can do if the drive won't mount.
I'm wondering if disconnected the drive while it was running could have caused this problem. I might have done that inadvertently when it was taking so long to format. I figured that might result in loss of data, but I wouldn't think it would render a drive completely non functional.
I'm guessing the problem is probably a failure of the drive, but the fact that this only cropped up when I tried to reformat it seems suspicious to me.
If anyone has any suggestions for ways to get the drive to mount or format it, I'd sincerely appreciate hearing them. Thanks.

Thanks for quick reply. Boy, I really screwed up. I guess I didn't think I could permanently ruin a drive that way. I just assumed as long as the drive could spin and wasn't going bad, you could always reformat it.
Just so you know, I let my iBook run untouched for literally 20 hours in the zero out erase mode, but the progress bar showed no progress at all, so I think the drive must have already been broken by that point. I was prepared for it to take a day or more, but with no visible progress in 20 hours it would have taken weeks.

External HD won't mount on PB

External HD won't mount on PB but, will on iBook, G5 iMac, MBP, and Mirror Door G4. I have a USB 2 HD that will mount on everything but 15" Aluminum PowerBook. I even tried updating the IOUSBFamily.kext but no luck that just made my camera to start working with my PB. When I plug in my HD the LED just blinks back and forth orange and green instead of Blinking orange and turning a solid green when connected.
Any sugestions?

In reply to arnie: Good tips!
I'll just add - booting holding "AppleOption+OF" boots into open firmware. I've never booted into this mode (on purpose...) but it seems to be (correct me if I'm wrong) a unix interface to OS X. Just make sure to type the commands EXACTLY. Unix is much pickier than OS X.
I've heard problems like this before - usually with those little bus-powered HDDs and Powerbooks. It's something to do with the amount of power the Powerbook puts out, although it should be the standard 500 mA that the USB 2 specs require. This can happen with firewire, however. If there's a power cord, use it.
You might try plugging the drive into a self-powered USB 2 Hub - one with a cord that plugs into an AC wall socket, then connect it to the Powerbook. If the Powerbook recognizes the drive, then it probably needs extra power.
Good luck
-Dan
15" 1.67 Powerbook G4 (Jan 2005), 400 mhz AGP Sawtooth G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8) 4G Clickwheel and 5G Vid iPods
Message was edited by: Daniel W, stupid grammer!

Lacie Hard Drives won't mount

My two Lacie hard drives won't mount on my G5 running Tiger. They were fine on my G4 iMac running Panther. I've tried using the Lacie Update Tool but the drives aren't recognised. I've tested the firewire cables on another drive that works and they're fine, so it's not cables.
Both drives power up okay and whir into action, but just aren't talking to the G5.
Lacie d2 HD 80GB FW DV
Lacie 40GB (no model number, "DESIGN BY F.A.PORSCHE", no model number).
Any ideas much appreciated.

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This happened to me with a LaCie external drive as well.
The problem is that LaCie formats the drives as PC-based
and not Mac Extended, so unless you reformatted the
drives to Mac when you started using them, your access
to them on any Mac may result in a failure to mount.
Once that happens retrieval of data is made more difficult
because of this formatting incongruity.
There is no way you can get the data once your G4 quits
mounting them. If you can get the data off of the drives,
back it up and then reformat the drives using Mac's Disc
Utility. Then you can reload the data and I suspect all of
your Macs will then mount the drives via Firewire.
Good Luck!
My two Lacie hard drives won't mount on my G5 running
Tiger. They were fine on my G4 iMac running Panther.
I've tried using the Lacie Update Tool but the drives
aren't recognized. I've tested the firewire cables on
another drive that works and they're fine, so it's
not cables.
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

WD 40Gb drive won't mount

I have a Western Digital Passport 40Gb USB 2 drive that I've used for several years. It's always worked on my DP G4 and G4 iBook, as well as various PCs. Now all of a sudden it won't mount on my G4. It will work fine on my iBook G4, running exactly the same software version, 10.4.11, and it works fine on the PC too. I've been to the WD site to download some software, thinking that was the problem, but there is no software for a Mac (at least that I can find). Can anyone advise me on how to get this thing working?
Thank you,
EG

Tried any other drives on the G4?
Tried it on another port on that computer?
Since you mention using it on PCs I take it you have it formatted as MS-DOS (FAT).

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As I've searched the discussion forums, I've seen plenty of postings for "Disk Image Won't Mount" and for "Device Not Recognized" but not the way I'm seeing it on my laptop.
After a backup and restore, my mac will no longer mount any... and I mean any images. I have downloaded several security or software updates from different vendors and each .dmg file will not mount. I still have the .dmg files in hopes that after I get this problem solved, I'll be able to install them, but...
It always gives the same reason for not mounting and I'm at a loss on what to do next. I've run Software Update hoping it will be a quick fix, but have had no success.
Any suggestions?

I have a similar problem. Using FireWire disk mode, I put a disk image of my entire iBook onto my iMac as a back-up. (For an unrelated problem, Apple told me I needed to erase my iBook completely and do a clean install of the system.) Well, I screwed something up. I don't know what exactly--maybe I didn't "put away" the device correctly, but the next day when I flipped on my iMac, the disk image of my iBook was just gone, and not to be found anywhere. I finally succeeded in restoring the image using TechTool, which scanned the entire volume of the iMac for directory information. And it's all there, because the img file is more than 10GB. But when I double-click on it, I get the following error msg: "The following disk images failed to mount...reason--not recognized." I've checked the app it's supposed to open with, permissions, and run Disk Utility volume repair. No dice. Any ideas??? Did I mention that this is EVERYTHING I had on my iBook???

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