Jonathan, I've got an external WD drive which for a time refused to mount although visible by the system profiler. There is a long history of this issue with WD drives which you can follow on Apple's Support Dsicussion forums. The general advice is to disconnect everything bar keyboard and mouse, start up your iMac and when in your user account attach the WD drive to the iMac. This seems to work - at least it did for me. I had to do this about a dozen times before it seems to have stuck - and stays persistently mounted.
As far as I can research the problem stems from the WD firmware that auto-shuts down the drive after a period of inactivity. I've not tried to update the firmware although I think there is a more recent version for my drive. HTH On 17 Jan, 12:33, Jonathan Brady <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry to go on with this saga. > > I wrote in last week or so about some problems I was having with my > firewire external hard drive. It's a western digital 1tb with mini > usb, esata and 2 firewire 800 ports and external power. > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
