On 21/2/18, steve harley, discombobulated, unleashed: >1) your Mini isn't recognizing any drives -- by this i assume you mean the >drives aren't showing in Finder > - try mounting them from within Disk Utility > - if that doesn't work, reboot your Mini with the shift key held down -- >does that change the situation? that clears caches and disables third part >extensions; if the drives do mount, then reboot again without the shift key, >are the drives are no longer recognized? that indicates a software >configuration problem: consider what extensions you may have installed > - if the shift key boot doesn't change anything, i would suspect system >software corruption or a hardware problem (such as with Firewire port); >restoring the system from Time Machine back to before the problem occurred >would tell you whether it is corrupted software; if that doesn't fix it, >signs point to a hardware issue > >2) your MBP has trouble with one drive -- "can't be unmounted" > - reboot MBP and try again with no applications open; instead of >unmounting via Disk Utility, use the Finder -- it usually gives you a more >informative message as to why unmount failed > - open the Console application and put >disk< in the search box; do you >see lines such as "(date) kernel disk0s2: I/O error."? if so there is a >problem with the hard drive; it could be the drive itself, the cable, or the >case (with the Firewire adapter circuit); i have even seen USB hubs (for usb >drives) and failing power adapters cause such problem > - if there aren't I/O error messages, it may simply be corruption of the >drive contents, and Disk Utility may or may not be able to repair it if you >can unmount it
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