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Hi- Is your drive external? Did you format it with OS X or under os 9.1? I am thinking of erasing the drive and then trying to create two dos partitions and then seeing if OS X can recognize it and initialize it then. This is such a bummer, I don't want to loose 80 Gigs of space. I am...

Do I win any help? I saw that you have an 80 GB backup disk. Is this a Maxtor by any chance? I cannot seem to mount it under MacOS X. It only sees the disk if I unplug the FW cable while hot. Then the OS tries to initialize without any luck. It thinks that the disk is 2.5 TB (is this a...

Hi- I have the same drive: 80 GB Maxtor, but I formatted it in OS9.1 (after installing the Maxtor drive utilities- it was not supported before that). I made it a single HFS+ partition. OS X doesn't mount/see the firewire device. If I unplug it, and replug it then OSX offers to initialize...

I have installed MacOS X (G4 320MB, two ATA drives, 4 partitions, one SCSI drive, one external Maxtor 80 GB drive). The Maxtor external FW 80 GB was formatted in the 9.1 environment. A single HFS+ partition was created. In MacOS X, the drive does not mount. It must be disconnected and then...

I have installed MacOS X (G4 320MB, two ATA drives, 4 partitions, one SCSI drive, one external Maxtor 80 GB drive). The Maxtor external FW 80 GB was formatted in the 9.1 environment. A single HFS+ partition was created. In MacOS X, the drive does not mount. It must be disconnected and then...