LIGHTNINGAD Posted June 2, 2014 Report Share Posted June 2, 2014 One of the macs i back up has several external devices connected. One of these is a firewire Raid hard drive, that i need to backup, yet in Retrospect i cannot find a way to have this drive show up. All the internal drives on that source computer are visible in Retrospect and can be selected for specific scripts, yet i cannot see (or select) the Firewire drive. Any suggestions? thanks Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted June 2, 2014 Report Share Posted June 2, 2014 Does the drive have a name that starts or ends with a bullet character? • Is the drive mounted in the Finder of the client? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNINGAD Posted June 2, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2014 Hi Lennart, no - the drive is named with alphanumeric characters only. yes - the drive is mounted in the client finder window. It is a drive that has been partitioned, and both partitions are mounted in the finder. adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted June 2, 2014 Report Share Posted June 2, 2014 Does the drive require any software (such as drivers) to be installed on the Mac? Is it connected to a third-party firewire card? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNINGAD Posted June 2, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2014 no - it simply is connected and it works! I have had the drive for several years, and used it on several computers. It has always worked flawlessly and never needed drivers. The only thing that has not seen the drive is Retrospect ! It is not connected via third party hardware...uses direct firewire connection to mac pro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted June 2, 2014 Report Share Posted June 2, 2014 Strange... Can Retrospect see any other Firewire drives on the same client? Is the drive connected directly to the FW port or is it daisy-chained to another drive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNINGAD Posted June 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 I don't have any other firewire drives connected. Its connected direct to the firewire port on the front of the mac. No daisy chain. The rear ports are connected to other devices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniels Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 Have you tried refreshing the client on the server because if the drive was mounted after the client was added to the server it may not be detected until you refresh the client? Your other option is to remove the client from the server and re-add it to the server and then see if the drive is detected. I have experienced issues where a drive will not appear if it was not mounted when the client was added to the server until I did either of the above options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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