All of a sudden I have the same problem with an external Firewiredisk. Diskutility finds it and so does Diskwarrior (no problems they say) but it won�t mount. (no problems on other comps). I�m afraid there�s a problem with my firewireconnectors but before I hand it in for repair I�d like to try the Unix utlities you mentioned above. Care to tell where I can find them?
Bosse Oh heck, I don�t think you do, but ... I don�t have a functional OSX machine hereabouts so I cant check anything I suggest searching the apple site and other UNIX resources on the web for simpler explanations when you have some of the jargon You can issue a range of commands when you boot using (I think) command S and you are faced with a screenfull of text >From there you have limited capacity to receive help (you can also research or do this using the unix terminal/consol which is in your applications>utilities folder Try issue the command apropos mount Or apropos any other search term that you hope to find info on (ie disk or format etc etc) It should list a number of unix commands which have that term in their man files (help files) If you see one that interests you (such as mount or fsck) then type the command man mount I think it is control z to exit scrolling though a man pages help on that command - some pages are many pages long (you can do man man to see all about the man program) Once you have done all that you will in all likelihood find it more comfortable to live with a non functioning computer than attempt to drive unix. philip =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
