RE: Mounting volumes
RE: Mounting volumes
- Subject: RE: Mounting volumes
- From: Rob Jorgensen <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:19:27 -0500
On 3/13/01, Pitcher, George commented:
> OK. How do you mount the volume normally once you've unmounted it? My
external hard drive pops up on the desktop when I start the
machine. I've
never tried unmounting and then remounting it.
Oh well, in the name of science...
...if I put away my external Firewire drive I cannot see how
to remount it
without:
- Restarting my machine
- Using a third party tool to mount the drive.
Certainly, there doesn't seem to be a way of remounting an
external Firewire
drive in OS 9.1. I imagine you can get a third party
application which may
support this (many of the HD toolsets no doubt have this ability).
So this comes back to my original question - once you've
unmounted the HD,
how do you remount it normally? Then you need to script this process.
Network scripting is not the right tool for this job.
Simon,
Now you see my problem. I normally use either a HD Toolkit or SCSI probe,
neither of which are scriptable. The 'mount volume' command is in Standard
Additions without any mention of being for use ONLY on a network.
At present we are using a partition on the d2 drive but we will soon be
re-formatting it into a single partition. I would still have the problem of
mounting the drive rather than a partition.
If you can suggest any 3rd party solutions I'll give them the once over.
I take it from your email that you're into Lasso as well?
I'm coming into this thread late, so excuse me if I've missed
something or don't understand the problem.
If I'm not mistaken, you should be able to overcome your problem with
an alias to the drive in question. It's worth a try anywho.
Mount the drive and create an alias to it and then unmount the drive.
Use the alias in whatever fashion you wish (scripted, double-click,
etc.) to bring the drive back online. I haven't done much with this,
but it just worked on a partition. <shrug>
--
Later,
Rob Jorgensen
Ohio, USA