External HD Not Mounting on 10.2.8

[dasterndastern]

Hi all:

Just asked this of a tech, then realized I should have come here first.

Many similar queries to this in the forum, but nothing quite duplicates my situation. So here goes...

I have a WD Mybook Studio, 500gb which I normally hook up via Firewire or USB to my Intel Macbook, 10.4, no problems. But that macbook's unavailable for the next week or so, so I dragged out my old Powerbook G3 laptop, running 10.2.8. Which can't seem to see the Mybook drive - hooked up via USB 1.0 cable. The drive is formatted HFS+, split into 4 partitions.

The My book drive hooks up fine and functions perfectly connected via USB (1.0) to my even older Mac 8600 tower!

The Mybook drive shows up in the System Profiler, and in Disk Utility. But the partitions are greyed out, and I cannot mount them. I ran disk utility on the mybook, and all drives verified ok.

I ran disk utility on the powerbook's boot HD as well - more than once, with repeated errors, which eventually boiled down to the below:

2008-03-07 23:50:36 -0500 - Verification of privileges has started
We are using special permissions for the file or directory ./System/Library/Filesystems/hfs.fs/hfs.util. New permissions are 33261
Permissions differ on ./usr/bin/more, should be -r-xr-xr-x , they are -rwxr-xr-x
Permissions differ on ./usr/share/man/man1/less.1, should be -rw-r--r-- , they are -r--r--r--
2008-03-08 00:04:09 -0500 - The privileges have been verified on the selected volume.

I get the following console error message when I hook up the drive to the G3:


Mar 7 22:23:41 localhost /sbin/autodiskmount[221]: disk1s10 hfs yes yes Photos and Videos [not mounted]

Mar 7 22:23:41 localhost /sbin/autodiskmount[221]: disk1s12 hfs yes yes Music [not mounted]

Mar 7 22:23:41 localhost /sbin/autodiskmount[221]: disk1s14 hfs yes yes Documents [not mounted]

Mar 7 22:23:41 localhost /sbin/autodiskmount[221]: disk1s16 hfs yes yes Audio [not mounted]

Mar 7 22:23:45 localhost /sbin/autodiskmount[221]: DiskVolume_mount_foreign: unrecognized return code from foreignMountDevice: -4

Mar 7 22:23:45 localhost /sbin/autodiskmount[221]: disk1s10 hfs yes yes Photos and Videos [not mounted]

Mar 7 22:23:45 localhost /sbin/autodiskmount[221]: DiskVolume_mount_foreign: unrecognized return code from foreignMountDevice: -4

Mar 7 22:23:45 localhost /sbin/autodiskmount[221]: disk1s12 hfs yes yes Music [not mounted]

Mar 7 22:23:46 localhost /sbin/autodiskmount[221]: DiskVolume_mount_foreign: unrecognized return code from foreignMountDevice: -4

Mar 7 22:23:46 localhost /sbin/autodiskmount[221]: disk1s14 hfs yes yes Documents [not mounted]

Mar 7 22:23:46 localhost /sbin/autodiskmount[221]: DiskVolume_mount_foreign: unrecognized return code from foreignMountDevice: -4

Mar 7 22:23:46 localhost /sbin/autodiskmount[221]: disk1s16 hfs yes yes Audio [not mounted]


I know a little bit more than zip about terminal commands - I'm hoping this is something I can fix fairly easily, because all my data's on the mybook, and it would be nice to be able to have easy access to it this week...

Thanks, in advance, for any assistance/thoughts...

- Dave Stern

[stilbite]

Hi There, sorry this might be a wild guess but it could be something to do with the Mybook drive seeing 10.4 and not liking 10.2.8.. is it a pain to upgrade to 10.4 to see itf it will talk to the G3?