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Hello all I have an ibook G3 running OSX 10.3.9. My issue is with an external firewire 400 drive I have. The other day I tried to trash something on the drive and it wouldn't go to the trash. I tried restarting but still it wouldn't let me trash anything. I tried to run Disk Utility and repair the disk but it said it couldn't do it because the drive wouldn't unmount and is still in use. I checked to see if any applications were running but nothing else was running. I have to force eject it from the Terminal just to unmount it from my desktop. I backed up all my data and as I was backing it up I found that a lot of the recent files I'd been working with wouldn't copy becuase they could not be read or written. So I tried to erase the drive but I get the same error message about not being able to unmount the drive. I have tried Disk Warrior and it gives me the same message. I've tried logging out and back in. Booting from a startup CD, and booting up in safe mode. I can't figure out what the problem could be. The fact that I can't even erase the firewire drive from the CD boot makes me fear the drive may be dead. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Group: Members
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Joined: 06-Nov 03
From: Los Angeles - US
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I've tried several firewire cables in this situation and even tried mounting the drive on a different comptuer like lepetitmartien suggested. I do think you are on to something with it being the enclosure more than the drive. I ran fsck from Terminal on the volume and it said the volume needed repairs but I also ran fsck on the disk and it said it was ok. This makes me wonder if it's the enclosure and not the drive. What do you think?
[Valente-Torrezs-Computer:~] valentet% mount /dev/disk0s10 on / (local, journaled) devfs on /dev (local) fdesc on /dev (union) <volfs> on /.vol automount -nsl [389] on /Network (automounted) automount -fstab [392] on /automount/Servers (automounted) automount -static [392] on /automount/static (automounted) /dev/disk2s10 on /Volumes/Bubo 1 (local, nodev, nosuid, journaled) [Valente-Torrezs-Computer:~] valentet% sudo fsck_hfs -f /Volumes/Bubo\ 1 Password: /Volumes/Bubo 1 is not a character device CONTINUE? [yn] y
** /Volumes/Bubo 1 (NO WRITE) ioctl(DKIOCGETBLOCKCOUNT) for fd 4: Inappropriate ioctl for device ** The volume needs to be repaired. ** Volume check failed. [Valente-Torrezs-Computer:~] valentet% sudo fsck_hfs -f /dev/disk2s10 ** /dev/rdisk2s10 ** Checking HFS Plus volume. ** Checking Extents Overflow file. ** Checking Catalog file. ** Checking Catalog hierarchy. ** Checking volume bitmap. ** Checking volume information. ** The volume Bubo appears to be OK.
Thanks for any suggestions on this persistent problem.
Valente
This post has been edited by banevt: Fri 24 Jun 2005, 10:32