mount os x drive

i have a 60 gb western digital hard drive that was formatted with mac os 10.2 as a master drive in a mac g4. it stopped booting, so i pulled the drive from that cabinet, adjusted the jumper settings to be a slave, and put it in another g4 cabinet. it slowed down the boot process but eventually the host drive came up and i logged into os x. when the desktop mounted i could see the host drive just fine, but not the 60 gb slave drive. i used the apple disk utility to view the drives. it clearly sees the western digital 60 gb on the bus, but lists it as "unmounted". so, using the mouse i select the unmounted drive from the list and click on the "mount drive" button. in response os x unselects the unmounted drive and gives me the error dialog, "no drive selected." i repeat this a couple of times with the same results. so much for their gui tools. anyone know the command line method to mount this drive so i can retrieve the contents?

thanks!

[wr]

Hi Will,

I can''t answer your question directly but just wondered whether you had checked what is now intended to be the "master" drive to be sure that it does not require specific jumper settings to be considered a "master"... It has been a while since I monkeyed with this kind of thing but I seem to recall that some drives had 3 possible settings: slave, master, and standalone.

Hi Will,

Sounds like your drive has failed. Can you use Diskwarrior or another third-party disk utility to determine the health of your drive?

zm

 

zac,

the data on this disk is worth the investment in diskwarrior. i''ll get it and test it and report back. thanks!

[wr]

I also wanted to echo what Anthony said. Western Digital drives have three settings: single/master, master with slave present, and slave. If your "master" drive isn''t set to the correct jumper setting, your second drive will not be accessible. But if that were the case, I would expect the second drive to not show up at all. Do try with Diskwarrior and hopefully you will post back with good news.

zm

Did you try updating the drivers on the disk?

mount [-Aadfruvw] [-t type]
mount [-dfruvw] special | node
mount [-dfruvw] [-o options] [-t type] special node