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Tiger Refuses to Mount Firewire Hard Drive
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: USA
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Anyone else experiencing this? I have a Western Digital external hard drive, which mounted fine in 10.3 on both my G4 MDD and my PowerBook now refuses to mount on both of these systems running 10.4. I power up the hard drive, plug the firewire cable into the Mac and the red activity light on the hard drive continuously glows red. System Profiler sees the drive, however, 10.4 will not mount it. The drive worked in 10.3 just fine since I used it to back up my Macs before I installed Tiger in case anything bad happened. Any ideas?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Guess I'm the only one. Great. 
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Florida
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Apple states in it's literature that you have to update the drivers of your external drive to the latest ones and then disconnect the drive while installing. I have 2 different external FireWire drives from Maxtor and LaCie and both worked fine after installing Tiger by following these directions.
Give it a try and hopefully it will work for you.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: USA
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Where is this info located?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Well, I determined it to be a failed hard drive. Odd, from the time I backed up my data to installing 10.4 the drive died. I pulled the drive out of the external case, threw it into my G4, would not be recognized by the system. Had a spare hard drive from my Tivo, plugged that into the external firewire case, bam, no problems. New drive works fine. Case solved.
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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I had the same problem with my second internal SATA drive. Had to use disk utility to repartition the sucker.
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Same symptoms here. On first connection of a hard drive to Tiger, it was busted. Luckily, I'd backed everything up to DVDs as well.
Another oddity I've come across, which probably isn't Tiger related (but who knows):
I have several external drives, and an USB 2.0 enclosre. If the drives are connected when I power them on, they just continuously seek and click, and never get recognized. If I unlplug the USB cable, turn the drive on, and let it "settle" then plug it in, they work perfectly. *shrug*
-Jake
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