Re: Missing drive

[Severin Crisp]

Thanks Ronni
The drive is not bootable, data only.  
For the moment, by some unseen magic!, it has repaired itself.   I shut down 
each night overnight and restart next day and there it was.   I note your two 
links for further notice, if needed!  
Many thanks
Severin

> On 29 Oct 2015, at 2:20 pm, Ronni Brown  wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 24 Oct 2015, at 3:35 PM, Severin Crisp > > wrote:
>> 
>> I have an Elgato 500GB SSD Thunderbolt connection which has disappeared 
>> since I did the latest security update on Yosemite.  It appears in System 
>> Report as physically connected to Thunderbolt but is not found with Disk 
>> Utility or Disk Warrior.  Shutdown and restart does not bring it to light.   
>> I have not yet tried just unplugging and replugging everything.  
>> Suggestions welcomed!
>> Severin Crisp
> 
> Hi Severin,
> 
> I somehow missed this post. Has the problem been rectified our do you still 
> require help?
> If you do require help - Is the external drive a bootable drive? - Or is it a 
> secondary (data) drive?
> 
> The System Management Controller, NVRAM, and PRAM all store parameters that 
> the system can use to store system settings including boot information. These 
> can become corrupt, and if they do, a reset may make a once invisible drive 
> visible again. The following two links identify how to reset these parameters:
> 
> > 
> 
> >
> 
> The resets above should be performed when problems exist, regardless of 
> whether or not the external drive is bootable. 
> Before doing anything else, these checks should be done because they're 
> easily to do and sometimes work.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ronni
> 
> 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014)
> 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz
> 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
> 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage
> 
> OS X El Capitan 10.11
> 
>> 
>> 
>>  Assoc Prof R Severin Crisp, FAIP, FIP, CPhys
>> 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia
>>   ph (08) 9842 1950 ( Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
>>mail to: sevcr...@westnet.com.au 
>> 
>> 
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 Assoc Prof R Severin Crisp, FAIP, FIP, CPhys
15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia
  ph (08) 9842 1950 ( Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
   mail to: sevcr...@westnet.com.au




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Re: Printing problem with Telstra C6300BD Gateway Max Cable Modem

[Ronni Brown]

Hi Tim,

Do you get any error message  'Filter failed’ when you try to print? 
If so the message will be due to plugins used by the driver not being 
compatible with the new security features in El Capitan. 

I would suspect its possibly more to do with El Capitan’s increased security:

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/mac/releasenotes/MacOSX/WhatsNewInOSX/Articles/MacOSX10_11.html
 
>

"Lots of vendors have not updated their drivers, and lots of peripherals are 
not working because of this. 
Since Apple doesn't recommend turning off the "rootless" feature and won't 
provide a workaround, vendors need to update their drivers.”

Cheers,
Ronni

13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014)
1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz
8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage

OS X El Capitan 10.11


> On 29 Oct 2015, at 10:05 PM, Tim Law  wrote:
> 
> Good evening,
> 
> I have been supplied with a new cable modem to use with my Telstra cable (non 
> NBN) and upgraded to a high speed connection free for three months. I’m very 
> happy the performance of the C6300BD Gateway Max cable modem/router in 
> general and are routinely getting speeds on wifi of 110mbps download all over 
> the house. Seems a stronger signal than the Apple Airport Extreme I have been 
> using, but that’s by the by.  Ethernet connection speeds are around 57mbps, 
> measured with Speedtest.net
> 
> The C6300BD Gateway Max has been working well but I cannot print via ethernet 
> cable to my network capable Dell 3110cn Colour Laser Printer. 
> The printer drivers from both my MacPro 1,1 running 10.7.5 and the Mac Mini 
> running 10.11.1 can both ‘see’ the printer and report on it’s status - ink 
> levels etc. What I cannot do from the Mac Mini 10.11.1 is print. Before 
> installing the C6300BD Gateway Max the IP addresses were served by an Apple 
> Airport Extreme and the printer worked, I think via the USB port on the 
> Airport. If I recall it also worked via the ethernet connection but I used 
> the USB as I needed the ethernet connection for another machine. 
> 
> To add to the mystery of the lack of printing, this evening I found printing:
> - Mac Pro 1,1 running OSX 10.7.5 via ethernet to C6300BD Gateway Max to Dell 
> 3110cn printer via ethernet WOULD print
> - Mac Mini running OSX 10.11.1 via ethernet to C6300BD Gateway Max to Dell 
> 3110cn printer via ethernet WOULD NOT print
> - Mac Mini OSX 10.11.1 via ethernet to C6300BD Gateway Max via ethernet to 
> Dell 3110cn printer using the network shared printer driver on the MacPro1,1 
> running OSX10.7.5 WOULD print.
> - Mac Mini running OSX 10.11.1 to Dell 3110cn printer via USB, WOULD print.
> 
> I’m thinking its something about the printer driver on OSX 10.11.1 not being 
> compatible with the C6300BD Gateway Max, or vice versa - but I may be wrong.
> 
> There are plenty of comments on Telstra’s Crowd Support about similar 
> problems with printing and the incapacity of this modem to set a fixed IP 
> address, which might be needed for the printer and therefore part of the 
> problem. 
> 
> However before I set the C6300BD Gateway Max to bridge mode, and set the 
> Apple Airport Extreme to distribute IP addresses, has any WAMUG users come 
> across a similar problem and found a solution?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Tim

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Printing problem with Telstra C6300BD Gateway Max Cable Modem

[Tim Law]

Good evening,

I have been supplied with a new cable modem to use with my Telstra cable (non 
NBN) and upgraded to a high speed connection free for three months. I’m very 
happy the performance of the C6300BD Gateway Max cable modem/router in general 
and are routinely getting speeds on wifi of 110mbps download all over the 
house. Seems a stronger signal than the Apple Airport Extreme I have been 
using, but that’s by the by.  Ethernet connection speeds are around 57mbps, 
measured with Speedtest.net

The C6300BD Gateway Max has been working well but I cannot print via ethernet 
cable to my network capable Dell 3110cn Colour Laser Printer. 
The printer drivers from both my MacPro 1,1 running 10.7.5 and the Mac Mini 
running 10.11.1 can both ‘see’ the printer and report on it’s status - ink 
levels etc. What I cannot do from the Mac Mini 10.11.1 is print. Before 
installing the C6300BD Gateway Max the IP addresses were served by an Apple 
Airport Extreme and the printer worked, I think via the USB port on the 
Airport. If I recall it also worked via the ethernet connection but I used the 
USB as I needed the ethernet connection for another machine. 

To add to the mystery of the lack of printing, this evening I found printing:
- Mac Pro 1,1 running OSX 10.7.5 via ethernet to C6300BD Gateway Max to Dell 
3110cn printer via ethernet WOULD print
- Mac Mini running OSX 10.11.1 via ethernet to C6300BD Gateway Max to Dell 
3110cn printer via ethernet WOULD NOT print
- Mac Mini OSX 10.11.1 via ethernet to C6300BD Gateway Max via ethernet to Dell 
3110cn printer using the network shared printer driver on the MacPro1,1 running 
OSX10.7.5 WOULD print.
- Mac Mini running OSX 10.11.1 to Dell 3110cn printer via USB, WOULD print.

I’m thinking its something about the printer driver on OSX 10.11.1 not being 
compatible with the C6300BD Gateway Max, or vice versa - but I may be wrong.

There are plenty of comments on Telstra’s Crowd Support about similar problems 
with printing and the incapacity of this modem to set a fixed IP address, which 
might be needed for the printer and therefore part of the problem. 

However before I set the C6300BD Gateway Max to bridge mode, and set the Apple 
Airport Extreme to distribute IP addresses, has any WAMUG users come across a 
similar problem and found a solution?

Cheers

Tim
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