Douglas Alan <doug@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Does anyone know if there is a way of mounting an external drive under
> OS X so that it is considered non-removable by OS X? (One way to
> accomplish this is to boot off of the external drive, which is what
> I'm doing right now, but it seems as if there should be a better way.)
>
> I.e., if for some reason an internal disk drive (or the boot disk)
> hiccups, the OS patiently waits for it to get better. (This is
> traditionally the way that Unix has behaved about disks.) An application
> never receives an error of any kind, nor does it see an empty
> filesystem. It just sees a time delay, while the disk drive is
> pondering the meaning of life. The application is forced by the OS to
> wait patiently until the drive is behaving itself again.
>
> With external drives (or at least external USB drives), a drive will
> often pause for a little bit, and in the meantime, the OS returns
> errors (or perhaps presents an empty filesystem) to the application.
> This makes some applications (like iTunes, for instance) completely
> spaz, and the only fix is to logout and log back in. Sometimes, the
> database even gets corrupted.
>
> I don't want the programs the I use to spaz. I want them to just
> recovery gracefully, as in the days of yore.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions,
> |>oug
I'm using an external 750GB Maxtor OneTouch 4 USB 2 HD and a LaCie 500GB
d2 quadra (connected via FW 800) and don't experience the issues you
describe. I only just got the LaCie d2, but it's had my iTunes library
located on it with no problems for three days now. Nor have I
experienced these sorts of troubles in the past - not even with old
macally ext. HDs connected via USB 1.1 to an original Bondi blue CRT
iMac. And it certainly never happened with ext. SCSI drives connected to
older Macs.
It sounds to me like flakey sleep settings for your HDs. Aside from
checking for firmware updates on the HD manufacturer's site I reckon
your best bet is to replace them with know working models.
Regards,
Jamie Kahn Genet
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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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