[karambos]

Mac G4 MDD, dual 1GHz, 1,25GB RAM, OS10.2.8

I tried connecting a USB/mp3 player stick drive thing to the USB port on my keyboard today. I assume a drive icon normally appears on the desktop which didn't happen. So I checked in the System Profiler and it recognised the drive, where it was attached, the name of the retailer, drive number, memory etc. The system Profiler seemed to know quite a lot about my drive. Sadly, I couldn't access it, though.

Am I looking in the wrong place under OS10.2.8? It worked fine under Mac OS9 - I used to just attached it the the keyboard usb port and a drive icon appeared. The USB stick thingy came with a CD but only contained WIN98 drivers. Couldn't find a webpage for them but assume there is no mac support.

I'd be grateful for any ideas/tips/help

[buells1]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by karambos:
[B]Mac G4 MDD, dual 1GHz, 1,25GB RAM, OS10.2.8

I tried connecting a USB/mp3 player stick drive thing to the USB port on my keyboard today. I assume a drive icon normally appears on the desktop which didn't happen. So I checked in the System Profiler and it recognised the drive

I had a similar problem with a 'floppy' drive. The company said it would not show up on the desktop until it had information on it. Might be the same with the USB stick drive.

[karambos]

oh, the USB drive had stuff on it. It was (is) about half full.

[reader50]

Open Disk Utility. If Drive Setup can see the drive, tell it to mount it. If it fails, the error message(s) may be more informative.