Mounting an old Apple External Hard Drive in OS 10.1.2

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I recently connected my Apple external hard drive to my machine and I know OS X is seeing it cause in the terminal I was able to get this /dev/disk/0s5 on/ (local). The only thing I can't figure out is how to actually have the hard drive mounted on the desktop. Thanks
 
1st try running every diagnostic and repair program you own on the system disk. you may have recognition problems you were previously unaware of.

is the drive recognized in os 9? what type of connection is it? how is it formatted? just how old is it?
 
Thanks, I'll try the running those programs, to see if thats the problem.

It does show up in OS 9.2, without a problem, and it's connection is this: from a usb hub to a Yamaha CD burner - from that to the apple external. Because my CD burner is older I had to get a USB to SCSI 2 cable, which I'm beginning to think might have something to do with it. Since the only way I can Burn cd's is to luanch classic, cause the yamaha driver doesn't get recognised in toast through OS 10.1.2.

Thanks again for your reply.
 
adapters are a tricky mess at best. i would try bypassing the the devices and adapters in front of it and see how that fairs. if you get them to work, then you can guess the problems is either in the adaptors or the ordering. also scsi generally needs drivers from the original manufacturer to work in osx as far as i know. not much support for it in osx.
 
ya, i found out that osx doesn't have much if any support for older scsi devices or their manufacturors for that matter, i'm gonna try and set the connections up differently like you suggested. i really appreciate your help, thanks again!
 
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