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What is the latest Disk Utility?
I did a dirty install, and have version 11. It hangs when I attempt to initialize a FW or USB hd for Time Machine.
Plugging the same external disk into an old iBook, I can reformat the same HD.
My G5, dual-core 2.3 mhz, is working great with Leopard, but external hard drives are not being seen, or only "partly" seen -/ they show up in Disk Utility, but not in sidebar or desktop (which they are set to do in preferences.)
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Leopard version is 11 build 252
How are they partitioned?
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Something is causing previously stable external drives to become unreadable, and un-reformattable. Disk Utility goes to endless spinning beachball when I attempt to make one partition out of two.
I have 6 OWC drives here, partitioned in various ways.
- FW 800, in an OWC aluminum case, 500 GB Seagate - one partition (movies)
- FW 800, in an OWC aluminum case, 400 GB Seagate - one partition (Drive Genius clone of main HD)
- Another FW 800 clone that I am not plugging in, keeping it safe.
- USB/FW OWC mini stack - 300 GB, two 150 partitions
- USB/FW OWC mini stack - 2 partitions
- USB/FW OWC mini stack
Doing the install to Leopard, I unplugged all the various FW and USB external drives. The install went fine, with the exception of a minor keychain issue. Then after the computer ran for awhile, I plugged a couple of the external drives in.
Disk Utility saw the FW 800 movie drive, but it would not mount. I plugged another FW 800 case into the back of that case, and the computer mounted the second one.
Then I turned them both off, rebooted, and the Mac saw both drives.
The Mac is a dual 2.3 G5 tower.
On two different OWC mini stacks, that were partitioned, Disk Utility hangs when attempting to make one partition.
On one of these, I plugged the drive into an iBook and repartitioned it from there (in Tiger) and the drive was fine, then I plugged it into the G5 and it worked fine.
The other drive hangs Disk Utility on the iBook also.
I have NO idea what is going on!
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I'm troubled with some external Firewire drives not mounting. They worked for about a day after I archive & installed Leopard. I ejected them to try to get a Canopus ADVC55 to work and now they won't mount. Disk Utility locks up trying to find them. There are a few discussions about this on Apple discussions, I have to reboot to get Disk Utility to quit most of the time.
Fred Also
G5 1.8 dual - various FW drives Metal Gear, Apower, no name - all worked fine in Tiger
