USB hard drive

From	me@home.spamsucks.ca (Kiraly)
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	USB hard drive
Date	2013-11-12 23:22 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<l5ud6u$fcd$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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I have a small bus-powered USB portable hard drive. When I plug it into 
my iMac with 10.9, the light comes on and I can hear it spinning up, but 
Disk Utility doesn't see it, and System Information doesn't even 
acknowledge its existence. I tried it in multiple USB ports and with a 
good cable. It worked until recently.

I was getting ready to toss it out, but first I tried plugging it in 
an old eMac running 10.5. Surprise surprise, it works there without a 
problem. What to do to get it working on my Mavericks system?

This is what Leopard's System Profiler has to say about it:

  Capacity:	465.76 GB
  Removable Media:	Yes
  Detachable Drive:	Yes
  BSD Name:	disk4
  Product ID:	0x1840
  Vendor ID:	0x13fd  (Initio Corporation)
  Version:	1.08
  Serial Number:	303931313132504234343031
  Speed:	Up to 480 Mb/sec
  Manufacturer:	Generic
  Location ID:	0x5b300000
  Current Available (mA):	500
  Current Required (mA):	2
  Mac OS 9 Drivers:	No
  Partition Map Type:	GPT (GUID Partition Table)
  S.M.A.R.T. status:	Not Supported
  Volumes:
Backup:
  Capacity:	465.44 GB
  Available:	141.28 GB
  Writable:	Yes
  File System:	Journaled HFS+
  BSD Name:	disk4s2
  Mount Point:	/Volumes/Backup

-- 
K.

Lang may yor lum reek.

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USB hard drive me@home.spamsucks.ca (Kiraly) - 2013-11-12 23:22 +0000
  Re: USB hard drive nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-11-12 18:28 -0500
    Re: USB hard drive me@home.spamsucks.ca (Kiraly) - 2013-11-13 00:38 +0000
      Re: USB hard drive nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-11-12 19:46 -0500
  Re: USB hard drive dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2013-11-13 23:00 +0000
    Re: USB hard drive me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2013-11-14 14:18 +0000
      Re: USB hard drive J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2013-11-14 11:56 -0500
        Re: USB hard drive Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-11-14 16:58 +0000
        Re: USB hard drive me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2013-11-15 06:11 +0000

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