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thanks for replying, I have repaired/reformatted on the powerbook and it works fine on loads of machines, but still won't mount on the imac. I've reset all firewire ports in the usual manner. I am still suspecting somethin is wrong with disk utility as it just hangs when talking to the ext hdd...

I have a external firewire hdd which is formatted as mac os extended, the device will not mount on my main mac (x.4 latest). Disk utility just goes spinning ball as soon as even thinks about mounting or erasing the ext. drive. My powerbook mounts the drive instantly. I have tried everything...

I have a problem with disk utility. I try to mount my ext. f/wire hdd using disk utility and on the rare occassions it sees the device, spinning ball forever when I try to mount, erase etc. The mac won't mount the device (mac os extended format) although my x.4.1 powerbook mounts it...