It's been appearing as that off and on since I updated to 10.4.9 (Had been working fine before). Typically I can dismount it, repair permissions and reboot. When I log back in and turn the drive on, it used to show up normal. Now though that doesn't even appear to work.
Normally I wouldn't mind the goofy icon, but the thing of it is is that osx apparently doesn't recognize it as a removable drive. It does not shut the drive down after 30 minutes of being idle nor when I dismount it. The drive just keeps spinning. I'm not worried about the icon, but I am worried about the drive spinning more than it needs to. The other 3 drives there work fine and spin down when idle as normal.
When I was able to repair the permissions and get the drive to appear normally, it also spun down and dismounted properly too.
It is a firewire drive the chain goes mac > incoming > backup > tv. I tried swapping the cable, position on the chain and port on the drive, none of which work.
Any ideas? (I haven't tried formatting it... obviously trying to avoid that)
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