Reading/Writing to External HDD - Having Issues

[markus97]

Hello all,

I have an external harddrive here. I need to transfer data from an xserver g5 to a windows 2003 PC. I looked around and noticed that mac's do not support the windows ntfs format, so I formatted the drive using fat32.

When I hook up the external hdd to the xserve, via usb, how can I access this drive? Should it auto-detect?

Im very new to mac's and any help would be appreciated. Im running MAC OS X Server Version 10.3.9.

Also, if I go in to Hardware - USB, I actually see the enclosure and the maxtor hdd so the system actually see's the hardware. How do I mount this drive and view it?

Thanks

 

[markus97]

Here is another update: I hooked up this drive to another mac that I have which is running 10.4.6 and it detected and mounted the drive without any issues.

My 10.3.9 has all of the latest updates. Is there a patch or something that I must install? I also tried to install these drivers but still no luck:

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.j...toid=cd6d8b9c4a8ff010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD

Any help would be appreciated, thanks

 

[SYQUEST]

A little clarification please, in your post above you mention you are connecting the HDD via USB, but the link to the Seagate update refers to FIREWIRE only!

So now, which interface is it, USB or FIREWIRE??

Have you tried using Disk Utility to mount the HDD?

Why not network the machines to transfer files? Would that not be faster?

....JIM....

 

[markus97]

Sorry about that, I didn't notice that. I installed that update for nothing.

I'm connecting it via usb. Disk utility does not display the drive so i'm unable to attempt to mount it.

The machines cannot be networked, it's a very complex scenario but we can't network them and transfer the data.

I also have another external harddrive here which is 120GB and has a firewire connection. I also tried to hook up this drive to the machine and it wouldn't detect it as well. Same exact issue as the initial drive.

Any other ideas?

 

[SYQUEST]

Plug the Firewire drive in, then REBOOT the machine and see if the drive mounts, or shows up in Disk Utility, and then attempt to mount it. If that doesn't work try powering the machine OFF, wait a bit, then power up and see what happens.

....JIM....

 

[drlex]

Markus,
You don't mention whether you're powering the drive from the USB port or an external source; if the former, there's a chance that the port is supplying enough power to allow detection but not operation, so you'll need the HDD's "wall-wart" too.

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