[advcrx]

Hello all,

I recently installed extra hard disks into two G4 machines at home. When I connect to either of these machines from I cannot see the new hard disks I installed.

Any clues?

Thanks in advance!

[chris v]

Do they have any unusual characters in their names, like slashes, periods or question marks?

[advcrx]

I do not have any illegal characters in the names of the drives. They are named "Xspare1" and "Xspare2"

[chris v]

Can you see them if you use ssh through the terminal? Just curious-- I'm not sure what this would prove, but there may be some way to force-mount them, if so.

[advcrx]

I don't know how to use ssh.

[chris v]

In a terminal type:

'ssh username@ip.address' (without the quotes) hit return, and you'll be prompted for a password.

edit: I think that needs to be the short username.

Once you're logged in, type 'cd /volumes' (change directory command-- also without the quotes) hit return again, then when you get the next prompt, type 'ls' and it'll list all the volumes mounted.

[advcrx]

I get a connection refused error message.

[chris v]

Originally posted by advcrx:
I get a connection refused error message.

You probably dont have ssh enabled on the remote machine. You'll have to turn that on in the sharing prefs, and if you're behind a router, forward port 22 to the machine. Didn't think about that, sorry.