Phatnoise Mass USB Storage Device : Not being detected anymore by my Mac...

Basically as the title says really.
It worked perfectly fine a few months ago and now nothing at all.
When I plug the USB lead in it used to be recognized straight away.
I have tried rebooting my Mac with the device already connected and that still has not solved the problem.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks

Regardless of what problems you do or don't have, you need to have a backup. These computers are mechanical beasts and can fail at any time.
That being said, if I was in your place I'd try going back to 10.5.6 to see if things keep working. If you have your original install discs (if the machine came with Leopard) or the Leopard disc you used to upgrade, you could try doing an Archive & Install, and once that completes, install the 10.5.6 combo update.
If things work well there, you could just stay at 10.5.6. If you want to further test things, upgrade to 10.5.7 again and make sure you use the combo update from Apple's download page. If the 10.5.7 update breaks things again, you may want to contact the manufacturer and let them know so they can look into things.
Hope that helps--sorry for being a bit long-winded. If you have more questions, feel free to ask!
~Lyssa

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Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
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Victor

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# HOOKS="base udev pata raid encrypt filesystems"
# This setup loads an lvm2 volume group on a usb device.
# HOOKS="base udev usb lvm2 filesystems"
HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata usb keymap filesystems"
# COMPRESSION
# Use this to compress the initramfs image. With kernels earlier than
# 2.6.30, only gzip is supported, which is also the default. Newer kernels
# support gzip, bzip2 and lzma.
#COMPRESSION="gzip"
#COMPRESSION="bzip2"
#COMPRESSION="lzma"
This is essentially the same as I had it in 2.6.29. I did initially use LZMA, since that gives slightly faster compression & decompression, but changed it back in case it was a timing issue (and rebuilt initrd). No joy. I also tried usbdelay=10 on boot, but again no difference.
This isn't exactly a "show-stopper", since the device functions normally otherwise and everything else is fine, but it is annoying. I would much rather have this device available automatically on boot, so that it gets checked when the max mount count comes up.

This was the bug update I received today:
FS#15282 - [mkinitcpio] Latest initrd not recognising usb storage devices?
User who did this - Thomas Bächler (brain0)
You can never rely on external hard drives to show up "in time".
The difference was that adding the "usb" hook to mkinitcpio used to add a 6 second delay on boot by default, this doesn't happen anymore. I think external drives simply don't belong in fstab, because there's too many possible race conditions. If you insist, you can try to force the usb storage driver to scan for devices sooner after detection, see the delay_use parameter to the usb-storage module.
You're going to have to modify the delay_use parameter to get it to work. Be prepared for race conditions, though. I didn't bother myself as it wasn't a show stopper for me, so I've advised that it can be closed as a non-bug.
ETA: usbdelay=10 doesn't work as that flag is apparently no longer recognised for some reason.
ETTA: I've always used UUID in the fstab because udev can remap devices on boot (I've had fstab not recognising devices because of this).
In case some people don't know, to see what the uuid for a device is, use the following:
sudo tune2fs -l <device-name>
Last edited by jamesbannon (2009-06-28 18:30:23)

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I have a Windows Server 2012 R2.
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