External HD on new G5

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Rhymer21

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After hooking up my external firewire hd to my NEW dual 1.8 G5, the icon never appears on the desktop. The drive shows up in the System Profiler with the following info:

FireWire Bus:

Speed: 800 Mb/sec Speed

FireWire Device:

Manufacturer: 53493
Unit Spec Id: 41005
Speed: 400 Mb/sec Speed
Unit Software Version: 100

3000DV v1.00.00:

Capacity: 57.27 GB
Manufacturer: Maxtor
Model: 3000DV v1.00.00
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: Yes
BSD Name: disk1
OS9 Drivers: Yes
Speed: 400 Mb/sec Speed
Unit Spec Id: 24734
Firmware Revision: 0100
Unit Software Version: 10483

Macintosh HD2:

Capacity: 57.14 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk1s10
Mount Point:


Am I missing something? Thanks in advance for any insight!

Jesse
 
Did you go to Finder->Preferences? Use the desktop Finder (the desktop when no applications is running and the menu says"Finder") and go to Preferences and make sure the "Show these items on the Desktop" check boxes are checked?
 
The hd shows up in Disk Utility but shows the following when trying to verify or repair disk:

Verifying volume “Macintosh HD2”
Volume check failed.

Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit (-9972)

1 volume checked
0 HFS volumes verified
1 volume failed verification
 
I had the same problem with an external USB 2 Hard drive.
Won't show up on the desktop of my DP 2.0 G5 even when the system
profiler sees it. After leaving it hooked up for 3 days(after restarting
a couple of times) and hoping for a miracle to happen, it still wouldn't appear.

It finally appeared when I plugged it into the USB port of my
Apple LCD, but I didn't want to tranfer chunks of .mov files
through a USB 1.1 port.

I gave up and plugged the drive into my Powerbook,
got the data out and reformatted the drive from the PB's Disk Utility tool.
now it appears on my G5's desktop much more consistantly.
Apart from some quirky things here and there, the G5's been great,
though I am looking out for potential problems in this forum faced
by other G5 owners.

Good Luck
 
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