Q: Lacie Rugged Harddrive on OSX 10.4

Is it possible to mount a lacie rugged drive on a powerbook g4 running OSX 10.4? It's not showing up in disk utility, but everything mounts fine on my imac running 10.7

Posted on Aug 9, 2012 1:01 PM

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by Michael Wasley,

Michael Wasley Aug 9, 2012 1:29 PM in response to mothnyc
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Aug 9, 2012 1:29 PM in response to mothnyc

Is this using FireWire or USB?

My (ancient) Rugged Drive needs external power on USB.
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mothnyc Aug 9, 2012 1:30 PM in response to Michael Wasley
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Aug 9, 2012 1:30 PM in response to Michael Wasley

USB. But the laptop is plugged in.
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Michael Wasley Aug 9, 2012 2:11 PM in response to mothnyc
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Aug 9, 2012 2:11 PM in response to mothnyc

Are you sure the USB port has enough power?

As I said my old LaCie needs to use its own mains adapter on USB but will run without it on FireWire.
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