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Audio Fire Wire Drive Sometimes Will Not Mount
Intermittently my external audio fire wire drives will not mount when I start up my rig. It is totally random and unpredictable. When they don't mount, I restart my rig 2, 3 or 4 times until they do. At some point they will mount, but it can be embarrassing in front of clients to go through this song and dance. I have tried swapping cables, FW ports, etc. This happens with just about any brand of drive, but I mostly use a combination of a Digi 80 and OWC Mercury Elite drive. All my drives were formatted in OS 9.2.2 (erase disk…).
Thanks a bunch, -Mick Mac 933 / 750 RAM / OS 9.2.2 / HD3 / two 192’s / PT v.5.3.1r2 |
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Re: Audio Fire Wire Drive Sometimes Will Not Mount
MIne does the same thing. A faster work around is to turn the firewire drives off for a second and then back on. This will get them to mount. Usually the drives need to be turned on after the computer is booted up. If you have them all on the same power source and the drives get going before the computer boots, it won't see them. At least that's my experience with the OWC drives.
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Re: Audio Fire Wire Drive Sometimes Will Not Mount
Run Disk Warrior on the drives.
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Re: Audio Fire Wire Drive Sometimes Will Not Mount
Do you have your Oxford 911 Bridge boards flashed with the latest firmware?
Lee Blaske |
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Re: Audio Fire Wire Drive Sometimes Will Not Mount
Update. I suspect the problem is with my G4 933, not the external drives. I just bought 2 new OWC FW drives and they would not mount on my G4 933. I took them home and tonight they mounted just fine on my G4 450. Both G4s use OS 9.2.2. Any ideas? Thanks, -Mick
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Re: Audio Fire Wire Drive Sometimes Will Not Mount
Bounce. This is still a problem. any ideas? Thanks a bunch, -Mick
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Re: Audio Fire Wire Drive Sometimes Will Not Mount
I downloaded the FW 911 flash files and there is a GUI App, but no detailed info on which of the many files are supposed to be loaded and operated. Is there any info for us simple people on how to operate the 911 flash utility
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Re: Audio Fire Wire Drive Sometimes Will Not Mount
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Lee Blaske |
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Re: Audio Fire Wire Drive Sometimes Will Not Mount
I have a 933 and the same problem with my OWC firewire. I just turn the drive off and on again and that does it everytime. I've gotten so use to doing this that I don't even think about it anymore. It's not the OWC drive, because I have several and they all work fine on my laptop. I think the problem for the 933 is when the drive spins up before the computer finishes booting.
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Re: Audio Fire Wire Drive Sometimes Will Not Mount
It seems a bad FireWire cable was the culprit. Since I've 86ed it, all my external drives have mounted magnificently. Thanks a bunch, -Mick
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