I've lost the ability to mount usb hard drive
I seem to have lost the ability to mount usb hard drives? Anyone any clues? Doesn't show up in disk utility or anywhere else.
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I seem to have lost the ability to mount usb hard drives?
Anyone any clues?
Doesn't show up in disk utility or anywhere else.
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[cite] s23osx:Nope, no joy there either. When I booted with the drive turned on it would mount but finder would crash immediately. And when I turned the drive on after booting it wouldn't mount but showed in SP. I've just tried manually loading the kext and also -f and now when I boot with the drive on she won't mount at all. Weird.…
What motherboard do you have?
is there any other bios revisions available?
See if someone else is using the same board without that problem ask them the bios revision.
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you can try:
a) disable legacy usb
b) Leave the device plugged for at least an hour and don't touch anything, hope it mounts, and then repair it (in case it's having a problem -- can you mount it on windows)
Try to load the IOUSBMassStorageClass.kext manually:
sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBMassStorageClass.kextI gotta do this every boot up to get USB storing devices to work.
Try adding -f to the boot.plist file
com.apple.Boot.plist
that will force the extentions to load at boot, You can also reinstall them with kext helper it may be a permissions problem
Hmm, been away for a bit and tried a new install using 9.0.1, heaps more stable on my sys but the HD prob still playin up. Now it's causing finder to crash. Will try these ideas now.
Nope, no joy there either.
When I booted with the drive turned on it would mount but finder would crash immediately. And when I turned the drive on after booting it wouldn't mount but showed in SP.
I've just tried manually loading the kext and also -f and now when I boot with the drive on she won't mount at all. Weird. I've used DW4 to fix this kinda prob I had with the previous installs but it seems to return. Really wouldn't mind trying to figure this one out.
Anymore ideas?