I have a number of external firewire drives that are being used to back up data from our XServe each night. 1 drive for each day of the week.
The Wednesday drive was disconnected without first being unmounted.
Now it cannot be mounted.
I have used Disk Utility to Repair the drive, Verify the Drive and erase/repartition the drive with no success. The partition always displays as "Not Mounted".
The only way I can get it to mount is to repartition the drive and even then call it some name other than Wednesday.
This leads me to believe the drive is OK and something is wrong with OSX in whatever method it uses to store mount information.
I checked in /Volumes and no matter if that drive is connected or not there is always an entry for Wednesday. I theorised that if I delete this entry then I might get the drive to remount.
Unfortunately I cannot seem to perform any command on this "file" without getting the error "device not configured".
Other commands such as fsck or mnt result in the same error.
How can I configure the drive,remove that entry in /Volumes or ultimately get the drive to mount again under the name "Wednesday"?
I know I could just use it with a different name, but I really don't want to change the backup scripts and besides, I shouldn't have to
The Wednesday drive was disconnected without first being unmounted.
Now it cannot be mounted.
I have used Disk Utility to Repair the drive, Verify the Drive and erase/repartition the drive with no success. The partition always displays as "Not Mounted".
The only way I can get it to mount is to repartition the drive and even then call it some name other than Wednesday.
This leads me to believe the drive is OK and something is wrong with OSX in whatever method it uses to store mount information.
I checked in /Volumes and no matter if that drive is connected or not there is always an entry for Wednesday. I theorised that if I delete this entry then I might get the drive to remount.
Unfortunately I cannot seem to perform any command on this "file" without getting the error "device not configured".
Other commands such as fsck or mnt result in the same error.
How can I configure the drive,remove that entry in /Volumes or ultimately get the drive to mount again under the name "Wednesday"?
I know I could just use it with a different name, but I really don't want to change the backup scripts and besides, I shouldn't have to