Firewire drive not mounting
I have a VST 20gb firewire drive (bus powered) that I purchased about six months ago and recently it stopped mounting. It shows up in the Apple system profiler but it never mounts. I rarely use this drive so I don't think the drive is broken (although I can't be sure of that.) It happened all of a sudden. I was copying my itunes folder to the drive and it just slowed down to a halt in the middle of copying the folder (3gb folder.) I've tried zapping the pram but that didn't work. I've tried different cables and that didn't work either. It doesn't show up in the Apple disk utility either. I know its under warranty but I live in Iceland and it might be a bit of a pain to ship it back to the States (where I bought it.) I'm not sure I can find the receipt as well.
Any Ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Powerbook G4 667mhz DVI, 768mb ram, 10.2.5
Any Ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Powerbook G4 667mhz DVI, 768mb ram, 10.2.5
Comments
I would say that this HD is broken. ASP just shows that the port is working and that the system can read from the card in the drive. Try to boot from the 9 cd and see if the HD shows up from Diskutil. If it doesn't work try to reset the NVRAM and then try booting from the cd again. If you are able to get a powersupply for the drive it is possible that it would work again if the power from the FW port all of a sudden went down.
Originally posted by Skalman
Hi,
I would say that this HD is broken. ASP just shows that the port is working and that the system can read from the card in the drive. Try to boot from the 9 cd and see if the HD shows up from Diskutil. If it doesn't work try to reset the NVRAM and then try booting from the cd again. If you are able to get a powersupply for the drive it is possible that it would work again if the power from the FW port all of a sudden went down.
I tried both suggestions and neither one worked. When I installed the 9 cd and ran disk utility, It just froze up and I had to restart. Resetting the nvram also did not help. The one thing that is different though is now I get a warning that the disk "failed authentication" and "could not be read." But I only get this warning when I unplug the drive after It doesn't mount. It gives me the option to initialize it or eject it. But neither one will work because when I plug it back in the warnings and options go away.
I guess it is broken, although it seems weird since I rarely use it and its practically brand new. Thanks for your help.
Thought I had it. Damn.