External Firewire Troubles, External Firewire Drive Won't Unmount/Er Options

[banevt]

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

Valente

[banevt]

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