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Issues hot swapping FW800 drive between G5 and Mac Pro
Hey everybody,
Has anyone out there had issues hot swapping a FW800 drive between a PPC Mac and an Intel Mac? At work I’m cutting on a 2×2.66 dual core intel Mac Pro running OS 10.5.2. At home I run a dual 2.0 GHz PPC G5 with OS 10.4.11.
I brought a 1TB G-RAID with my media home yesterday and all went well. When I brought the drive back in this morning, I got an error on screen saying that the drive can’t be mounted and needs to be reformatted as soon as possible.
Ring any bells out there? There were no impacts or weird mounting issues on the G5 prior to bringing it back to work. I can’t seem to find this issue discussed on the g-tech website.
Thanks a bunch in advance for any advice!
=jon h.
“If you can describe what it is, that’s not it.”
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4 Replies
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Hi Jon,
Which OS did you format this drive on (remembering that the media drives should be formatted with journalling “off”Cheers
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Hey Alexander!
That’s great info. Somehow the fact that media drives need to have journaling turned off at format has missed me completely.The drive was formatted with journaling turned on while connected to a separate dual 2.6 GHz Powermac G5 running OS 10.4.11
How does journaling effect things? Thanks a bunch for the reply!
=jon h.
“If you can describe what it is, that’s not it.”
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You’ll have to re-format, which means you will loose all your data, so move it to another drive first, then move it back after formatting.
Cheers
Alexander -
Done and done. All is well. Thanks a bunch Alexander!
“If you can describe what it is, that’s not it.”
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