Running a Mac Mini (10.5.3) with an external Iomega hard drive connected via USB.
The hard drive has been formatted and assigned to Time Machine and backup works OK.
The problem I have is that whenever I restart/reboot the Mac Mini, the Iomega drive is no longer recognized/mounted by my system (no icon on desktop). The Iomega drive stays running since it has its own power switch. I need to power it down and then power up for it to be recognized again by OS X whenever I restart.
Why do I need to do this and is there any way that I can avoid having to power on and off to have the disk recognized ?
Any help/ideas would be gratefully appreciated !
The hard drive has been formatted and assigned to Time Machine and backup works OK.
The problem I have is that whenever I restart/reboot the Mac Mini, the Iomega drive is no longer recognized/mounted by my system (no icon on desktop). The Iomega drive stays running since it has its own power switch. I need to power it down and then power up for it to be recognized again by OS X whenever I restart.
Why do I need to do this and is there any way that I can avoid having to power on and off to have the disk recognized ?
Any help/ideas would be gratefully appreciated !