Xsan 4 will not mount volume on client

I recently upgraded my MDC and my client computer to Yosemite. I went through the migration process the best I could and created a Configuration Profile on my MDC for my client computer. I installed the profile successfully but the volume will not mount on the client computer. On the client computer within Profiles, the Xsan Configuration Profile has in red "Unsigned" underneath it, is that what is causing the problem?
Also a few notes: there are two other client computers that haven't been upgraded and are running Maverick and the volume does mount to those computers. The volume is also mounted on the MDC and if I go to Disk Utilities on the client computer I do see the volume, just not mounted.
Any help would be great! Thank you.

Thank you Claudio,
After doing much research and testing I believe you are onto something with my fsmpm or my .auth_secret file not being created. After using Server.app on the MDC I used the configure profile within Server.app. After installing the profile on my client computer it didn't mount and when looking within the Library/Preferences/Xsan folder there was no files (including the hidden .auth_secret file). So I then I used the web profile interface to create the configuration profile and this time it installed the fsnameservers and config.plist files but not the hidden auth_secret file and still no mount.
To answer some of you questions, I did try several times the "sudo xsanctl mount Volume Name" but had no success. I was previously running 10.9 on the MDC and my client computer. I am not sure if the MDC already had an Open Directory Master before upgrading and I did have a little bit of problems activating Xsan, because some of my DNS settings had changed. I got that all squared away and Xsan started working.
The reason I believe it is a fsmpm issue is because when I executed the command "sudo xsanctl i" (views the volumes connected to Xsan) I go a message reading "fsmpm not running error3". So after reading this forum Xsan: "fsmpm not running" message in Xsan Admin - Apple Support I copied the .auth_secret from the MDC to my client and still no mount. I tried again with all the files within Library/Preferences/Xsan folder and nothing. I then got the .auth_secret file from another client computer running 10.9 and still no mount, BUT when I copied all the files within the 10.9 client's Library/Preferences/Xsan the volume appeared! YEAH! But I'm not sure if this is a fix I should be happy with or continue to figure out why its not working the proper way? That way in the future I'm not running into this issue over and over again.
So I need to figure out either how to get my fsmpn running in 10.10 or figure out why my my Server.app on the MDC won't create the auth_sect file. I read somewhere that within the Xsan screen in the Sever app it should show the Authentication Secret, but I do not see this on my Xsan screen. Should it be there and if so is this where my problem steams from? Any thoughts? Thank you so much!

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[SERVICE: 0x4EC,09:18:38 INFO] * CItunesDevice::HandleHardwareInput()
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:18:38 INFO] [InterfaceRemoved]
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:18:38 INFO] [1] value = 0
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:18:38 INFO] removed device number 1 from m_objDeviceNumberMap
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:18:38 INFO] [1] input #7 from src #0
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:18:38 INFO] [1] input #7
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:18:38 INFO] [DevNodesChanged]
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:18:38 INFO] [1] Progress state is 3, Waiting to disconnect = 0
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:18:38 ERROR] device number 0 exists, but isn't in m_objDeviceNumberMap!
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:18:38 INFO] removed device interface "\\?\usbstor#disk&venapple&prod_ipod&rev1.62#000000bf5f21&0#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}" from m_vctDeviceInterfaces
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:18:38 INFO] [1] input #8 from src #0
[SERVICE: 0xD24,09:18:38 INFO] [1] input #8
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:18:38 INFO] [MACHINE 1 INPUT #7] - (HDW) Interface Removal
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:18:38 INFO] * CItunesDevice::HandleHardwareInput()
[SERVICE: 0xD24,09:18:38 INFO] [MACHINE 1 INPUT #8] - (HDW) CheckDevNode
[SERVICE: 0xD24,09:18:38 INFO] Connection Detection Status - 0x1806400, device '\\?\usbstor#disk&venapple&prod_ipod&rev1.62#000000bf5f21&0#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}'
[SERVICE: 0xD24,09:18:38 INFO] * CItunesDevice::HandleHardwareInput()
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:18:39 INFO] [DevNodesChanged]
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:18:39 INFO] [1] input #9 from src #0
[SERVICE: 0x4EC,09:18:39 INFO] [1] input #9
[SERVICE: 0x4EC,09:18:39 INFO] [MACHINE 1 INPUT #9] - (HDW) CheckDevNode
[SERVICE: 0x4EC,09:18:39 INFO] Connection Detection Status - 0x1806400, device '\\?\usbstor#disk&venapple&prod_ipod&rev1.62#000000bf5f21&0#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}'
[SERVICE: 0x4EC,09:18:39 INFO] * CItunesDevice::HandleHardwareInput()
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:18:48 INFO] [DevNodesChanged]
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:18:48 INFO] [1] input #10 from src #0
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:18:48 INFO] [1] input #10
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:18:48 INFO] [DevNodesChanged]
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:18:48 INFO] [1] input #11 from src #0
[SERVICE: 0xD24,09:18:48 INFO] [1] input #11
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:18:49 INFO] [MACHINE 1 INPUT #10] - (HDW) CheckDevNode
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:18:49 INFO] * CItunesDevice::HandleHardwareInput()
[SERVICE: 0xD24,09:18:49 INFO] [MACHINE 1 INPUT #11] - (HDW) CheckDevNode
[SERVICE: 0xD24,09:18:49 INFO] * CItunesDevice::HandleHardwareInput()
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:34:58 INFO] [DevNodesChanged]
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:34:58 INFO] [1] input #12 from src #0
[SERVICE: 0x4EC,09:34:59 INFO] [1] input #12
[SERVICE: 0x4EC,09:34:59 INFO] [MACHINE 1 INPUT #12] - (HDW) CheckDevNode
[SERVICE: 0x4EC,09:35:00 INFO] * CItunesDevice::HandleHardwareInput()
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:39:01 INFO] [DevNodesChanged]
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:39:01 INFO] [1] input #13 from src #0
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:39:01 INFO] [1] input #13
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:39:02 INFO] [MACHINE 1 INPUT #13] - (HDW) CheckDevNode
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:39:02 INFO] * CItunesDevice::HandleHardwareInput()
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:39:02 INFO] [DevNodesChanged]
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:39:02 INFO] [1] input #14 from src #0
[SERVICE: 0xD24,09:39:02 INFO] [1] input #14
[SERVICE: 0xD24,09:39:02 INFO] [MACHINE 1 INPUT #14] - (HDW) CheckDevNode
[SERVICE: 0xD24,09:39:02 INFO] * CItunesDevice::HandleHardwareInput()
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:42:41 INFO] [DevNodesChanged]
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:42:41 INFO] [1] input #15 from src #0
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:42:41 INFO] [DevNodesChanged]
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:42:41 INFO] [1] input #16 from src #0
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:42:41 INFO] [DevNodesChanged]
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:42:41 INFO] [1] input #17 from src #0
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:42:41 INFO] [1] input #15
[SERVICE: 0x4EC,09:42:41 INFO] [1] input #16
[SERVICE: 0xD24,09:42:41 INFO] [1] input #17
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:42:41 INFO] [MACHINE 1 INPUT #15] - (HDW) CheckDevNode
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:42:49 INFO] Connection Detection Status - 0x180600A, device '\\?\usbstor#disk&venapple&prod_ipod&rev1.62#000000bf5f21&0#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}'
[SERVICE: 0x4EC,09:42:49 INFO] [MACHINE 1 INPUT #16] - (HDW) CheckDevNode
[SERVICE: 0x4EC,09:42:49 INFO] Connection Detection Status - 0x180600A, device '\\?\usbstor#disk&venapple&prod_ipod&rev1.62#000000bf5f21&0#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}'
[SERVICE: 0xD24,09:42:49 INFO] [MACHINE 1 INPUT #17] - (HDW) CheckDevNode
[SERVICE: 0xD24,09:42:49 INFO] Connection Detection Status - 0x180600A, device '\\?\usbstor#disk&venapple&prod_ipod&rev1.62#000000bf5f21&0#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}'
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:42:51 INFO] [InterfaceArrival] \\?\usbstor#disk&venapple&prod_ipod&rev1.62#000000bf5f21&0#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:42:51 INFO] type 0x7 drive 0x1 partition 0x0
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:42:51 INFO] [1] set waiting to mount = 1
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:42:51 INFO] [1] Attempt to reassign from session 0 to session 0, DENIED!
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:42:51 INFO] [1] added device interface "\\?\usbstor#disk&venapple&prod_ipod&rev1.62#000000bf5f21&0#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}" to m_objDeviceNameMap
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:42:51 INFO] [1] added state machine 1 to m_objDeviceIdMap
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:42:51 INFO] [1] added device number 1 to m_objDeviceNumberMap
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:42:51 INFO] [1] added device interface "\\?\usbstor#disk&venapple&prod_ipod&rev1.62#000000bf5f21&0#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}" to m_vctDeviceInterfaces
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:42:51 INFO] [1] input #18 from src #0
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:42:51 INFO] [1] input #18
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:42:51 INFO] [DevNodesChanged]
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:42:51 INFO] [1] input #19 from src #0
[SERVICE: 0x4EC,09:42:51 INFO] [1] input #19
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:42:51 INFO] [DevNodesChanged]
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:42:51 INFO] [1] input #20 from src #0
[SERVICE: 0xD24,09:42:51 INFO] [1] input #20
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:42:51 INFO] [MACHINE 1 INPUT #18] - (HDW) Interface Arrival
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:42:51 INFO] [1] progress state is 2, Waiting to mount = 1
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:42:51 INFO] [1] progress is now 2
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:42:51 INFO] [1] progress is now 2
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:42:51 INFO] [MACHINE 1 TRANSITION] - {Unknown} ==> {Connected}
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:42:51 INFO] [MACHINE 1 ACTIONS] - {Connected}
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:42:51 INFO] [1] SCSI Inquiry attempt #0
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:42:51 INFO] VendorId: Apple
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:42:51 INFO] ProductId: iPod
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:42:51 INFO] revision: 1.62
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:42:51 INFO] vendor bytes:
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:42:51 INFO] 02 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 05 00 13 12 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:42:51 INFO] [1] firmware version: 1.62 (0x13E)
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:42:51 INFO] [1] Power State: Not Powered
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:42:51 INFO] [1] Checkpoint attempt #0
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:42:51 ERROR] Did not find first letter of stage
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:42:51 INFO] [1] serial number 000A270002BF5F21
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:42:51 INFO] [1] *** CONNECTED - Sending event out, device session 0.
[SERVICE: 0x4EC,09:42:51 INFO] [MACHINE 1 INPUT #19] - (HDW) CheckDevNode
[SERVICE: 0x4EC,09:42:51 INFO] Connection Detection Status - 0x180600A, device '\\?\usbstor#disk&venapple&prod_ipod&rev1.62#000000bf5f21&0#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}'
[SERVICE: 0xD24,09:42:51 INFO] [MACHINE 1 INPUT #20] - (HDW) CheckDevNode
[SERVICE: 0xD24,09:42:51 INFO] Connection Detection Status - 0x180600A, device '\\?\usbstor#disk&venapple&prod_ipod&rev1.62#000000bf5f21&0#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}'
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:42:53 INFO] [SIMULATED VOLUME ARRIVAL] generating volume mount for \\?\usbstor#disk&venapple&prod_ipod&rev1.62#000000bf5f21&0#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:42:53 INFO] [VolumeArrive] mask = 0x1C
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:42:53 INFO] looking up device # for \\.\E:
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:42:53 INFO] type 0x7 drive 0x1 partition 0x1
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:42:53 INFO] iTunes device #1 found with drive letter E, mask 0x10
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:42:53 INFO] [1] set waiting to mount = 0
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:42:53 INFO] [1] input #21 from src #0
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:42:53 INFO] [1] input #21
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:42:53 INFO] looking up device # for \\.\D:
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:42:53 INFO] type 0x2 drive 0x0 partition 0xffffffff
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:42:53 INFO] [SIMULATED INTERFACE ARRIVAL] generating connect event for device 0
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:42:53 INFO] looking up device # for \\?\usbstor#disk&venapple&prod_ipod&rev1.62#000000bf5f21&0#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:42:53 INFO] type 0x7 drive 0x1 partition 0x0
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:42:54 INFO] [MACHINE 1 INPUT #21] - (HDW) Volume Mount
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:42:54 INFO] [MACHINE 1 TRANSITION] - {Connected} ==> {Mounted}
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:42:54 INFO] Connection Detection Status - 0x180600A, device '\\?\usbstor#disk&venapple&prod_ipod&rev1.62#000000bf5f21&0#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}'
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:42:54 INFO] [MACHINE 1 ACTIONS] - {Mounted}
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:42:54 INFO] [1] progress state is 2, Waiting to mount = 0
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:42:54 INFO] [1] progress state is 2, Waiting to mount = 0
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:42:54 ERROR] Did not find first letter of stage
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:43:02 INFO] [1] OS says filesystem is FAT32
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:43:03 INFO] [1] ===== iPod Touch Wheel =====
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:43:03 INFO] [1] progress state is 2, Waiting to mount = 0
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:43:03 INFO] 9:43:3, year 2006, day of yr. 321, GMT offset 0 isDST 0
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:43:03 INFO] [1] progress is now 0
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:43:04 INFO] [1] *** MOUNTED - Sending event out, device session 0.
[SERVICE: 0x52C,09:43:04 INFO] [1] Auto-launch iTunes DISABLED
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:43:11 INFO] [VolumeArrive] mask = 0x10
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:43:11 INFO] looking up device # for \\.\E:
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:43:11 INFO] type 0x7 drive 0x1 partition 0x1
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:43:11 INFO] iTunes device #1 found with drive letter E, mask 0x10
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:43:11 INFO] [1] set waiting to mount = 0
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:43:11 INFO] [1] input #22 from src #0
[SERVICE: 0x4EC,09:43:11 INFO] [1] input #22
[SERVICE: 0x4EC,09:43:11 INFO] [MACHINE 1 INPUT #22] - (HDW) Volume Mount
[SERVICE: 0x4EC,09:43:11 INFO] ** CItunesDevice::HandleHardwareInput()
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:43:11 INFO] [DevNodesChanged]
[SERVICE: 0x4F0,09:43:11 INFO] [1] input #23 from src #0
[SERVICE: 0xD24,09:43:11 INFO] [1] input #23
[SERVICE: 0xD24,09:43:12 INFO] [MACHINE 1 INPUT #23] - (HDW) CheckDevNode
[SERVICE: 0xD24,09:43:12 INFO] Connection Detection Status - 0x180600A, device '\\?\usbstor#disk&venapple&prod_ipod&rev1.62#000000bf5f21&0#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}'
[SERVICE: 0xF90,09:43:16 INFO] <0x4> Got Serial #
[SERVICE: 0x200,09:43:16 INFO] <0x4> GetFormatType() returned unknown format 0
[SERVICE: 0x200,09:43:16 INFO] [1] Progress state is 0, Waiting to disconnect = 0
[SERVICE: 0x200,09:43:16 INFO] Mounted
[SERVICE: 0x200,09:43:16 INFO] Device 1 is FAT32 and appears mounted, checking intermediate state...
[SERVICE: 0x200,09:43:16 INFO] Device 1 not in intermediate state. It appears to be truly mounted.
[SERVICE: 0xF90,09:43:16 INFO] Mounted
[SERVICE: 0xF90,09:43:16 INFO] [1] already mounted!
[SERVICE: 0xF90,09:43:16 INFO] [1] progress state is 0, Waiting to mount = 0
[SERVICE: 0x200,09:43:33 INFO] <0x4> GetFormatType() returned unknown format 0
[SERVICE: 0xD10,09:43:33 INFO] [1] Progress state is 0, Waiting to disconnect = 0
[SERVICE: 0xD10,09:43:33 INFO] Mounted
[SERVICE: 0xD10,09:43:33 INFO] Device 1 is FAT32 and appears mounted, checking intermediate state...
[SERVICE: 0xD10,09:43:33 INFO] Device 1 not in intermediate state. It appears to be truly mounted.
[SERVICE: 0xF90,09:43:33 INFO] <0x4> COM request for device 1 drive letter - E
[SERVICE: 0xD10,09:43:34 INFO] Mounted
[SERVICE: 0xD10,09:43:34 INFO] Device 0 is FAT32 and appears mounted, checking intermediate state...
[SERVICE: 0xD10,09:43:34 INFO] Device 0 not in intermediate state. It appears to be truly mounted.
[SERVICE: 0xF90,09:43:54 INFO] [1] Progress state is 0, Waiting to disconnect = 0
[SERVICE: 0xF90,09:43:54 INFO] Mounted
[SERVICE: 0xF90,09:43:54 INFO] Device 1 is FAT32 and appears mounted, checking intermediate state...
[SERVICE: 0xF90,09:43:54 INFO] Device 1 not in intermediate state. It appears to be truly mounted.
[SERVICE: 0x200,09:43:54 INFO] Mounted
[SERVICE: 0x200,09:43:54 INFO] [1] already mounted!
[SERVICE: 0x200,09:43:54 INFO] [1] progress state is 0, Waiting to mount = 0
[SERVICE: 0xD10,09:43:54 INFO] Mounted
[SERVICE: 0xD10,09:43:54 INFO] Device 0 is FAT32 and appears mounted, checking intermediate state...
[SERVICE: 0xD10,09:43:54 INFO] Device 0 not in intermediate state. It appears to be truly mounted.
[SERVICE: 0xF90,09:43:54 INFO] [1] Progress state is 0, Waiting to disconnect = 0
[SERVICE: 0xF90,09:43:54 INFO] Mounted
[SERVICE: 0xF90,09:43:54 INFO] Device 1 is FAT32 and appears mounted, checking intermediate state...
[SERVICE: 0xF90,09:43:54 INFO] Device 1 not in intermediate state. It appears to be truly mounted.

If anyone is interested I managed to solve this problem by reformatting the ipod as a mac ipod, with the help of friends system. This does get rid of the music but as I had it backed up wasn't a problem. I then plugged the mac Ipod back into a windows pc and reformatted it as a windows ipod which updated the firmware correctly and have'nt had a problem since.

Hard drive will not mount shows up in Disk Utility

I have an external drive with a bootable OS X 10.6.8. I was in a transition between building up a SSD swapped drive. The SSD is installed in the CPU box but I have my old installation running from an external.
I have several external hard drives. They are all Firewire. Some have USB 3.0 and or eSATA options but my MacMini only talks to Firewire and USB 2.0.
I understand that you daisy chain Firewire drives and turn them on and off in sequence as they fall from the CPU box/case.
Firewire is a power source. I run the external with the OS using an AC adapter but one Firewire drive is powered through Firewire.
I have had as many as 4 external drives running along with the internal drive without a glitch while I was reorganizing files.
Today I booted off the external drive. It was running fine. I turned on one Firewire drive (the one that runs on Firewire power). That drive stumbled. I recognized the sound when there is an interruption in power. This cause the external boot drive to stall. I had to force a reboot.
Now the external boot drive will not boot up. It does not mount but Disk Utility sees it. The drive itself is bright and clear in Disk Utility but the partition (single) is faded out. I can run Verify and repair in DU. DU says it doesn't see anything to repair. It will not mount on its own or when I click the Mount button in DU. It does not produce an icon on the Desktop (because it is not mounting).
I also have SpeedTools. But although it sees the drive I cannot do anything with it. None of its tools run more than a spli second before they fail.
This drive has USB 3.0 and I see everything through USB that I see through Firewire. Connecting the other way did not get around the problem.
Of course I will buy an AC adapter for every external drive and never run them using Firewire again but the horse is out of the barn.
I have the original installation disks and could run the Archive and Install option but it would require physically swapping drives with the internal. I'd like to avoid it if possible. It is a MacMini and tedious.
Any suggestions?

I took the problematic hard drive and installed it in my Mac Mini so I could attempt a Safe Boot and then Archive and Install if necessary.
Safe Mode didn't work. The drive produced the circle with a slash symbol.
I reset the PRAM which was part of a list of steps to work through I found created by Apple Support.
I was able to boot up to Verbose Mode and view the text of the boot process. I wrote it all down. I can answer questions about the content better than typing it all out exactly. It includes, "...journal magic is bad..." "...failed to open..." and ends with "...cannot mount root, errno = 19"
I attempted Archive and Install however when it went to show what target drives were available it was a blank box and all buttons were grayed out.
I rebooted and opened Disk Utility from the DVD. The drive appeared the same with the top main line bright and the partitioned volume faded. Still was unable to mount. I ran Verify and this time a red line of text appeared "Invalid content in Journal" and at the end I ran Repair. When running I could read line by line and at one point it showed "checking volume information" then the following line "Repairing volume" the following line "Rechecking volume" more line of checking then it ended with "The volume was repaired successfully."
It still would not mount. I ran Verify again and again said "Invalid content in Journal" and this time it stopped midway saying "The volume was found corrupt and needs to be repaired. Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk."
I clicked Repair and it ended with The vol. was repaired successfully."
Still unable to mount I began repeating Repair over and over. Each time it found something to repair and ended with a success message. After several more Repairs I tried Verify and it stopped midway saying to Repair the disk.
Question: Does running Repair multiple times continue to correct bits and pieces little by little or is this a generic message and we should treat it as a problem Disk Utility cannot pinpoint and is just beating its head against the wall?
The step by step instructions I downloaded mentioned running Repair more than once but it did not say that running it 20 times would erode some problems and eventually lead to a fully repaired disk (if the problem was something DU could take care of in the first place). At this point I have run Repair about 20 times total with a series of 10 back to back skipping Verify. I keep seeing the lines about invalid content in a journal and that it repaired something successfully. Yet I still cannot mount the disk.

Hard drive will not mount with 10.4 but will mount with 10.3

I have a G4 powerbook running on 10.4.11. There is a western digital my book external drive hooked up to the USB port. I have two partitions on it. I tried to change the group settings to read write and got an error saying I did not have permission. Now the first partition will mount, but the second which I tried to change will not mount.
Disk utility sees the drive but it is grayed out. DiskWarrior sees the drive.
I dragged out my old G3 running 10.3.9 and plugged it in. Works great. The disk drive partition mounts and all of the files are there. What do I need to do to get 10.4.11 to mount the disk partition?
The external drive is a Western Digital My Book 250G divided equally into two partitions. The partitions are in Mac extended format.

I'm having pretty much the same problem... Have a WD 500 GB external attached via USB. I can't say for sure that the WD caused this (wasn't paying close enough attention), but I've noticed that my own MacBook HD is no longer mounted. I can't seem to find anyway to accomplish this either. I've booted from another volume to run Disk Utility (repair/verify). I rebooted with the MacBook startup drive and still, no HD. And NOW I can't see the bootable partition I made on the WD external. What?
I feel like the opposite of a nerd, cuz I'm just scratching my head at this point. Oh yeah, and running 10.4.11...

External USB drives will not mount under Mountain Lion

Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, two external USB2 drives that I have will not mount and cannot be viewed in the Finder. The same occurs on a 2012 MacBook Air, a 2009 iMac 27 and a 2010 MacMini, all running OS X Mountain Lion version 10.8.2.
Both drives are Samsung Story external USB drives (one is 1.5 GB and the other is 2 GB) and both have been formatted using Mac Disk Utility with a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partition, one using Snow Leopard and the other with Lion.
Both still mount correctly on a friends MacBook Pro that is still running Snow Leopard, and I had no problem with the same drives under Lion. Interestingly both can also be connected to Time Capsule USB port and show up correctly.
Both drives mount correctly under Windows 7 on BootCamp partitions that I have on both the 2012 MacBook Air, a 2009 iMac 27. These BootCamp partitions have Paragon HFS+ installed so I can read Mac formated drives.
Both drives show up in Disk Utility, but when attempt to mount the drives I get the message "The disk could not be mounted. Try running First Aid on the disk and retry mounting." I can run Repair in First Aid on the disk and get the message that the volume appears OK, but again have the same problem when I attempt to mount the disk.
I have also tried using Disk Utility 3,2, but still cannot mount the drives, though the program indicates there is no problem with the drives.
I have other portable USB including a Samsung portable USB2 drive, and two external USB3 drives, and I don't have problems with them.
There is clearly a problem with Mountain Lion with accessing (mounting) these Samsung Story USB drives, and the problem appears to be with Mountain Lion itself as the problem did not occur on the same Macs with Lion and does not occur with Bootcamp partitions on the machines.
I have a lot of time searching forums, but I have not found anyone with an identical problem.
I sure hope someone can help or that Apple come up with a fix for this issue which has only developed since the update to Mountain Lion.

bj10au wrote:
Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, two external USB2 drives that I have will not mount and cannot be viewed in the Finder. The same occurs on a 2012 MacBook Air, a 2009 iMac 27 and a 2010 MacMini, all running OS X Mountain Lion version 10.8.2.
Both drives are Samsung Story external USB drives (one is 1.5 GB and the other is 2 GB) and both have been formatted using Mac Disk Utility with a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partition, one using Snow Leopard and the other with Lion.
Both still mount correctly on a friends MacBook Pro that is still running Snow Leopard, and I had no problem with the same drives under Lion. Interestingly both can also be connected to Time Capsule USB port and show up correctly.
Both drives mount correctly under Windows 7 on BootCamp partitions that I have on both the 2012 MacBook Air, a 2009 iMac 27. These BootCamp partitions have Paragon HFS+ installed so I can read Mac formated drives.
Both drives show up in Disk Utility, but when attempt to mount the drives I get the message "The disk could not be mounted. Try running First Aid on the disk and retry mounting." I can run Repair in First Aid on the disk and get the message that the volume appears OK, but again have the same problem when I attempt to mount the disk.
I have also tried using Disk Utility 3,2, but still cannot mount the drives, though the program indicates there is no problem with the drives.
I have other portable USB including a Samsung portable USB2 drive, and two external USB3 drives, and I don't have problems with them.
There is clearly a problem with Mountain Lion with accessing (mounting) these Samsung Story USB drives, and the problem appears to be with Mountain Lion itself as the problem did not occur on the same Macs with Lion and does not occur with Bootcamp partitions on the machines.
I have a lot of time searching forums, but I have not found anyone with an identical problem.
I sure hope someone can help or that Apple come up with a fix for this issue which has only developed since the update to Mountain Lion.
You can start here
http://support.seagate.com/kbimg/flash/213059/213059_EN.HTML
Pete

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My lacie HD - forwire 200 gig will not mount. It shows up in disk utilities but not on the desktop. In the info section of disk utility, the smart status is not verified. It seemed to go wacky after the last security update.

Lacie offers this advise in their FAQs. Put in FireWire drive and Mac OS for the search fields.
1) Try a different cable.
2) Repair the Permissions. Open the Disk Utilities and click on the First Aid Tab. Highlight your 'boot volume' on the left side of the window and click on 'Repair Permissions'. (Don't bother verifying first. It takes as long as repair and something always needs repairing).
3) Shut down, power off and disconnect all devices. Unplug the computers power cable (or remove the battery if a laptop). Wait about 15 minutes. Plug everything back in and boot up. This may reset the bus.

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Hi guys ... this is my first post in these forums, so sorry if it is in the wrong category.
I have a Mac Pro, purchased in Feb this year. I have an iOmega Ultramax firewire drive, that is partitioned into four disks.
I have had time machine running well, and it backs everything up onto a second iOmega drive I have.
Yesterday, before I left for work, I saw TM was sbusy backing up. The finder was not responding but I just left it, as didnt have time to loko into it before leaving.
When I cam home last night, I saw it was still not responding, and TM was still trying to backup. All other apps were functioning fine.
I tried to force quit Finder and TM, but it did not work. I then shut down the Mac manually, and rebooted.
The problem has now arisen, where the partitioned drives will not mount at all. The TM backup drive is fine, and I can browse TM fine with it - so good to know all my data is backed up.
I looked at the logs in console, and see the messages saying that the drive cannot mount as it is dirty?
What I have tried as troubleshooting steps:
•Disk Utility to try and mount the drives, but they are not showing up
•Connecting the drive to my Mac Mini - still nothing.
•DiskWarrior - nothing. Only my TM backup drive and Mac HD show up.
•Running FSCK from Terminal. I can see the drives in /dev, but keep getting "Bad Super block" errors. When I try looking for another Super Block, it says nothing found, and would I like to run it manually? The same happens when run in single user mode.
•Unplugging the Mac and the drives from the Mac, waiting 5 mins, resetting the NVRAM and PRAM (booting up holding CMDPR and waiting for the second chime, shutting down, plugging in and turing n drives, rebooting ... nothing!
It seems as though I have exhausted all possible options.
I now accept that the drive is unrecoverable, and am relieved that the TM backups are OK. I am thus happy to format the drive and repartition it, then restore everything from TM. Will be a fairly big job, but at least the data is backed up.
The only problem I have, is I cannot even mount the drives to format them!
Is there any safe way of doing this over the command line. Or even better, has anybody gt any other advice as to options I can try?
I hope I have been thorough enough in my explanation here.
Thanks in advance,
Dave

The only problem I have, is I cannot even mount the drives to format them!
I have a feeling that the partition map is bad. Does the drive itself report to DU? If the drive does show up, you can select that, and click the Repair Disk button under the First Aid tab. If that doesn't fix it, with the drive selected, click the partition tab and re-partition the drive. After that, I would erase the newly created volumes with 1-pass/zero out option selected and restore the data that was on the external from TM.
If none of this works or if the drive itself (not the volumes) doesn't show up in DU, you either have a bad drive or bad controller in the external case. How old is the Ultramax? Just wondering if it might still be under manufacturer's warranty. I would check to see if you are still eligible from the manufacturer's warranty and get the whole external unit replaced. If you are out of warranty, I think it likely that you need to replace that external with a new one. I've had a drive go bad in an external case (this one I could still mount but the heads would 'freeze') and the controller on another external go bad (this one, the drive would not report to DU so I took the drive out of the enclosure, stuck the drive in another case and there was no problem with the drive.)

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Just recently my applications have taken a turn to not wanting to launch. These include anything from Dashboard to the Microsoft Office Suite. It also includes anything that is downloaded form the internet, like the World of Warcraft download client. Long story short, the errors that I constantly get are
System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.Framework/versions/A/Frameworks/Co reGraphics.Framework/versions/A/CoreGraphics
I figured that with it being a system library issue and the Repair Disk Permissions has been completely useless, that a complete restore would be in order. And I was wrong. For some reason my Genuine 13-inch MacBook Pro Mac OS X Install DVD will not mount. Meaning I out the DVD in said drive and it will attempt to mount but will eventually give up and eject itself. I can load any other cd/DVD into my drive and it will mount without a problem.
Everything is up to date software wise.
About my mac:
2009 MacBook Pro Unibody
Apple OS X 10.6.8
Processor: 2.53 GHz Intel
Memory: 4GB 1067 MHZ DDR3
Apps that won't open due to System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.Framework/versions/A/Frameworks/C oreGraphics.Framework/versions/A/CoreGraphics
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Finale NotePad 2008.           (Downloaded from Internet)
iTunes.                                  (OS based/internet)
Google Earth.                       (Internet)
Microsoft Word.                    (Student Disk Download)
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I have two external hard drives connected by a firewire to my 2002 G4 iMac running OSX 10.3.9. One is a 160GB and the second a 360GB drive.
I was out of the room when the area experienced a minor power drop in voltage and when I came back the iMac had the message to shut down and restart. When I restarted everything appeared normal until I realised that one partition did not mount on the 360GB drive. I ran Disk Utility to check the disk and it found some issues (I failed to write them down..) but Disk Utility appeared to fix them.
The disk has 2 partitions and only one of the two partitions will not mount (the second partition works fine!). Disk Utility says that both partitions check OK.
I have rebooted several times. I have removed all other external attachments and rebooted but still the partition will not mount.
I cannot see the partition in Finder. The second partition on the disk is available to see and use in Finder.
I have selected the partition in Disk Utility (grayed out) and tried the "mount" button but nothing happens. For some 18 months up until now the drive has worked fine although I did notice a couple of times it took a while for the drive to open up in Finder and other applications. I use that particular partition daily, it has approx 100GB used of the 150GB total space.
When I ran Disk Utility it comes up with a variation in the results compared with the partition that has mounted OK. The result of running "Verify Disk" is listed below. The only diffeerence between the two partitions is the first line of each volume. Does the ",0" following "Checking HFS Plus volume." for the first partition called "Genesys1" indicate anything?
DISK UTILITY REPORT
Verifying volume “Genesys1”
Mounting Disk(S,"Checking HFS Plus volume.",0)
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
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Verifying volume “Genesys2”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
The volume Genesys2 appears to be OK.
2 volumes checked
2 HFS volumes verified
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Regards

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External Hard drive will not mount on desktop

I have a 17" Powerbook G4 that has replaced a broken iBook G4. I've been using a Western Digital MyBook Pro Edition as a secondary drive for my multimedia as well as my iTunes Library. It worked fine on the old iBook.
When I plug it into the Powerbook, using either USB2 or Firewire 800, it will not mount to the desktop. It DOES however appear in the System Profiler as "External HD Button and Lights". The drive is formatted for FAT32 and works fine on my Windows XP desktop machine, so I know the drive functions mechanically. A different hard drive, a Maxtor mounts to the desktop fine using USB2, so it isn't a bus issue.
This is driving me nuts. I LOVE this computer, but I have WAY more invested in music than the cost of the computer.
Thanks in advance.
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