Recently I purchased a LaCie 500GB external hard drive (http://www.lacie.com/uk/products/product.htm?pid=10651). When I first connected it to my computer I was still running Jaguar, and it would not mount. It showed up in disk utility but wouldn't mount from there either. I assumed this was just because it was perhaps not compatible with 10.2, so I just made one partition in Mac OS Extended format so that I could back up all my files before performing an erase and install of Tiger.
After getting Tiger installed, I tried using iPartition to make a FAT32 partition so that I can still share photos etc with my Windows using friends. This partition will not mount either. It also shows up in disk utility but I am unable to mount it from there.
I've done some searching around this forum and a few others, and tried using the sudo mount command in the terminal after creating a directory on my internal, but I just get the message:
mount_msdos: Unsupported sector size (0)
I checked the System Profiler and under the USB tab, the drive shows up, but only the Mac formatted partition shows up under volumes.
Is there any other way I can manually mount this, or have I been using the sudo mount command incorrectly?
I'm running an iMac g4 PowerPC with the latest update of Tiger.
ps - I also noticed in iPartition that there is an option to format partitions in something called "DOS FAT32 (<= 2GB). I made another partition using this but it's doing basically the same thing, the only difference I can see is that in disk utility it says:
Format : MS-DOS File System (FAT32)
rather than:
Partition Type : Windows_FAT_32
And also that the first FAT32 partition I made cannot be verified or repaired, but the second one can, and when I try, it gives me this error message:
Verify and Repair disk “disk1s12”
** /dev/disk1s12
Invalid BS_jmpBoot in boot block: 000000
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
1 non HFS volume checked
1 volume could not be repaired because of an error
pps - I just tried doing the method described here: http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-38412.html
And I got this message in the terminal:
disk1s11 device will attempt to be mounted ...
***Disk Appeared ('disk1s1',Mountpoint = '', fsType = '', volName = '')
***Disk Appeared ('disk1s2',Mountpoint = '', fsType = '', volName = '')
***Disk Appeared ('disk1s3',Mountpoint = '', fsType = '', volName = '')
***Disk Appeared ('disk1s4',Mountpoint = '', fsType = '', volName = '')
***Disk Appeared ('disk1s5',Mountpoint = '', fsType = '', volName = '')
***Disk Appeared ('disk1s6',Mountpoint = '', fsType = '', volName = '')
***Disk Appeared ('disk1s7',Mountpoint = '', fsType = '', volName = '')
***Disk Appeared ('disk1s8',Mountpoint = '', fsType = '', volName = '')
***Disk Appeared ('disk1s9',Mountpoint = '/Volumes/LaCie', fsType = 'hfs', volName = 'LaCie')
***Disk Appeared ('disk1s11',Mountpoint = '', fsType = '', volName = '')
Disk Mounting Completed
But it still isn't mounting!
After getting Tiger installed, I tried using iPartition to make a FAT32 partition so that I can still share photos etc with my Windows using friends. This partition will not mount either. It also shows up in disk utility but I am unable to mount it from there.
I've done some searching around this forum and a few others, and tried using the sudo mount command in the terminal after creating a directory on my internal, but I just get the message:
mount_msdos: Unsupported sector size (0)
I checked the System Profiler and under the USB tab, the drive shows up, but only the Mac formatted partition shows up under volumes.
Is there any other way I can manually mount this, or have I been using the sudo mount command incorrectly?
I'm running an iMac g4 PowerPC with the latest update of Tiger.
ps - I also noticed in iPartition that there is an option to format partitions in something called "DOS FAT32 (<= 2GB). I made another partition using this but it's doing basically the same thing, the only difference I can see is that in disk utility it says:
Format : MS-DOS File System (FAT32)
rather than:
Partition Type : Windows_FAT_32
And also that the first FAT32 partition I made cannot be verified or repaired, but the second one can, and when I try, it gives me this error message:
Verify and Repair disk “disk1s12”
** /dev/disk1s12
Invalid BS_jmpBoot in boot block: 000000
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
1 non HFS volume checked
1 volume could not be repaired because of an error
pps - I just tried doing the method described here: http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-38412.html
And I got this message in the terminal:
disk1s11 device will attempt to be mounted ...
***Disk Appeared ('disk1s1',Mountpoint = '', fsType = '', volName = '')
***Disk Appeared ('disk1s2',Mountpoint = '', fsType = '', volName = '')
***Disk Appeared ('disk1s3',Mountpoint = '', fsType = '', volName = '')
***Disk Appeared ('disk1s4',Mountpoint = '', fsType = '', volName = '')
***Disk Appeared ('disk1s5',Mountpoint = '', fsType = '', volName = '')
***Disk Appeared ('disk1s6',Mountpoint = '', fsType = '', volName = '')
***Disk Appeared ('disk1s7',Mountpoint = '', fsType = '', volName = '')
***Disk Appeared ('disk1s8',Mountpoint = '', fsType = '', volName = '')
***Disk Appeared ('disk1s9',Mountpoint = '/Volumes/LaCie', fsType = 'hfs', volName = 'LaCie')
***Disk Appeared ('disk1s11',Mountpoint = '', fsType = '', volName = '')
Disk Mounting Completed
But it still isn't mounting!