yahoolane
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MAC OS Slave Drive access
We had a MAC with OS Tiger 4.0 basically crash last week. The OS would not boot, however we could still see the drive using disk warrior.
We bought a new hard drive and hooked the old drive up as a slave. Installed MAC OS on the new drive.
So my question now is, how do we access the slave (old) drive? Using the MAC disk utlities, it shows the slave drive now as "Media" with 0 bytes. Also, the drive is showing up as not having MAC OS 9 drivers on it. The Disk Utility only allows us to create a new partition on the drive.
We would like to recover the information on this drive. Is this possible? If so, how?
Thanks in advance
We bought a new hard drive and hooked the old drive up as a slave. Installed MAC OS on the new drive.
So my question now is, how do we access the slave (old) drive? Using the MAC disk utlities, it shows the slave drive now as "Media" with 0 bytes. Also, the drive is showing up as not having MAC OS 9 drivers on it. The Disk Utility only allows us to create a new partition on the drive.
We would like to recover the information on this drive. Is this possible? If so, how?
Thanks in advance
Eoin OSullivan
If Disk Warrior was able to "see" the drive before .. can it still do so? IS there any chance they you have incorrect slave settings on the old drive?
You don't say what Mac you have. Macs prior to the Mirrored Door G4's had to have one drive jumpered as Master and the other as Slave. Newer Macs needed to have both drivers jumpered as cable select. Make sure you have the right jumper settings on both your drives.
By the way, some drives, Western Digitals in particular, are jumpered differenly if they are the only drive on the IDE bus. They have a "Single" setting as well as a "Master with Slave" setting.
By the way, some drives, Western Digitals in particular, are jumpered differenly if they are the only drive on the IDE bus. They have a "Single" setting as well as a "Master with Slave" setting.
P.S. If neither Disk Utility nor Disk Warrior will fix the drive, you might try Drive Rescue: http://prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php?PHPSESSID=d0d9556692a7d8d7dfb7eea843d356ae
There is a free demo at the link above.
There is a free demo at the link above.
ASKER
The drive is now recognized properly. There were 4 different slave settings for the old drive. Once i found the correct slave setting, the drive shows up correctly, but will not mount.
When trying to VERIFY or REPAIR the disk I get the following messages scrolling over and over "Invalid Key Length".
Does anyone know what this means?
When trying to VERIFY or REPAIR the disk I get the following messages scrolling over and over "Invalid Key Length".
Does anyone know what this means?
It sounds like the drive got corrupted because you used the wrong jumper settings. Have you tried to see if Disk Warrior can repair it?
ASKER
The drive was corrupted before we set it up as a slave. This is the reason why we are bothering with replacing it.
After a power flicker, when we tried booting up off the old drive, it gave us the same "Invalid key Lenght" error. After awhile it dumped us to a Unix prompt where we could LS and see data.
I have tried Disk warrior and it gives the same "Invalid Key Length". After a few hours it finished repairing and gave me an error stating that the drive could not be repaired.
I get the option to mount the drive, and it says that it mounts "Successfully" in the log, however the drive never shows up.
After a power flicker, when we tried booting up off the old drive, it gave us the same "Invalid key Lenght" error. After awhile it dumped us to a Unix prompt where we could LS and see data.
I have tried Disk warrior and it gives the same "Invalid Key Length". After a few hours it finished repairing and gave me an error stating that the drive could not be repaired.
I get the option to mount the drive, and it says that it mounts "Successfully" in the log, however the drive never shows up.
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