Lacie External HD MAC OS Ext Format READ ONLY!?!

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surina777

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i googled around to try and find the answer but the only thing i can find are users with windows formatted external hd's being readonly on a mac

my case is...i have an lacie 160gb external hd i have been using w/my pb g4 for years and i assume it is b/c of the tiger install it is now it is only allowing me readonly access?

anyone have any suggestions?

sorry for the newb question...but i googled/searched to no avail

heres my terminal readout:
Macintosh:~ Surina$ diskutil list; cd /volumes/; ls -la
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_partition_scheme *111.8 Gi disk0
1: Apple_partition_map 31.5 Ki disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS partition1 69.9 Gi disk0s3
3: Apple_HFS Partition 2 41.7 Gi disk0s5
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_partition_scheme *152.7 Gi disk1
1: Apple_partition_map 31.5 Ki disk1s1
2: Apple_Driver43 64.0 Ki disk1s2
3: Apple_Driver_ATA 64.0 Ki disk1s3
4: Apple_FWDriver 112.0 Ki disk1s4
5: Apple_HFS Surina's Media 152.7 Gi disk1s6
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: *0.0 B disk2

image of my info on hd --> http://i6.tinypic.com/86q2eeh.jpg
 

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I have an external LaCie HD that I use with Tiger with no problems. I believe I had to do a clean install for it to work though. You can also go to the LaCie website to download their update tool to check for latest firmware.
Have you tried the usual repairs with disk utility? (permissions and repair disk)
 
no dice :( updated the firmware ... i am guessing it has to do w/the warning i get when i first plug in the external to the mac....says that its having problems and that i need to back it up and format the hd ... oh well... i was trying avoid having to back everything up to multiple dvds

thanks for the help anyways! any other suggestions are welcomed!
 
Have you repaired permissions on both your hard drive and the external drive? If you're getting errors when you plug the drive in, it might be time to move to a new drive, or at least reformat, as the format/drive is almost 4 years old.
 
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