Does anyone on the list run anything like this (ie any
usb 1.1 external hard drive/mp3 player not an iPod?)
I'm running a 3400 under 8.6, using a macally cardbus
pcmcia usb. First time I plugged it in, it saw this
just fine, mounted on the desktop, I copied files to
it, no problem.
Second time I plugged it in, the pb asked me if I
wanted to initialize the disk because it was
unreadable. Won't mount the volume. System profiler
sees it and can correctly identify the device on the
bus as an archos product. Does not mount in the
finder. What to do?
I'd been playing with an archos jukebox player 6000,
and it was smooth as silk from the powerbook to the
desktop iMac (BTW, the ajrv2 won't mount on the iMac
either, didn't even mount on first try, gave me the
do you want to initialize this? message first time
out.)
I tried zapping pram, rebuilding the desktop, checking
the preferences folder, making sure the extensions
were all okay...what I don't understand is why it
would mount the first time out and then not again.
The device is fine, it boots and plays the way it is
supposed to, I just can't make it mount on any of the
systems. Which is a bummer because I want to add my
own music and upgrade the firmware, but I can't if I
can't mount it.
The manual says that under mac os 10, it is sometimes
necessary to reformat the drive under a dos format.
Now I am not running os 10, but I am wondering if this
is what I should do. Says it will make the device
unable to work under windows, but that's little
concern to us.
Thanks for your help!
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