Q: Desktop drive icon missing for just one of several USB external drives
I have a Mac Mini running OS 10.8.2 Server. There are 12 Seagate Flex USB drives (attached through two USB 2.0 powered hubs) and 3 Western Digital Firewire drives, and until last week all functioned absolutely normally. Last week the desktop icon for one (just one!) of the Firewire drives dissappeared, but the drive is still mounted in /Volumes. It is even correctly shared and can be remotelly accessed on another Mini and a MacBook. Disk Utility shows that it is mounted, and the Repair Disk function unmounts, checks, reports all is well and remounts. I'm just missing the icon in Finder. Where is it?
Before you suggest it.... Yes, hard disks is checked under Finder Devices preferences. All the other drives do show as expected in both the root folder view and on the Finder sidebar. This one drive is mounted and visible in ls -ls /Volumes, but missing from desktop, root folder and sidebar in Finder.
Mac mini Server (Mid 2011), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
Posted on Nov 21, 2012 1:49 PM
Just a little follow-up.
I was able to fix this problem, but I am still at a loss to explain how it happened.
The fix was to use rsync to copy all of the files stored on the drive to temporary storage (another new 3TB drive), reformat the old one, give it a new name (which arrived with a new icon) and then rename the drive back to its old name. I then used rsync to move all the files back, so I am back where I started.
D.
Posted on Dec 9, 2012 10:20 AM