Alyssa- Let me make it plain and simple, I Love You.
AA
On Sep 22, 2005, at 11:22 PM, Alyssa Ryvers wrote:
I don't have all that much time to get into this, but 1st off I
suspect that the formatting of the external drive should be done
from the 9.2 disk from the Apple Disk Utility. All drives on a Mac
system should be formatted using the appropriate version of the
Apple Disk Utility. If there is one piece of info I would like to
help you with, it is that one.
Boot up from the 9.2 CD (or wait until you've installed 9.2 and
run the Utility from the internal drive where you installed the OS)
Run Apple Disk Utility [from the CD] (this means that you are
losing all your info from your external hard drive - but it sounds
like you're OK with that?)
Format your external drive using this Utility.
Make sure to name the drive when you do this; if for some reason
you decide to rename the drive at a later time, be sure to run
Norton because there will be a directory error. (ie do yourself a
favour and don't rename the drive after you name and format it the
first time)
Then - I don't know - if your life still isn't dealing adequately,
I would try to find a fresh install of [complete] 9.2. Before that
though... did you unplug the external drive and any other
peripherals when you attempted to run the update? Also, did you
boot off the CD? You can change the bootup disk somewhere in your
system folders (it's been a while since I used 9 - but it's there
somewhere - or there is that damn key command when you boot up -
whatever was it?). I would suggest trying the update if you can do
so by booting off the update CD. Perhaps that's not possible? But
worth a shot if you're having problems.
The great thing about system 9 is that you can back up the entire
operating system easily - you must know this. Just copy your boot
drive into a folder, on an external drive, and you will have a
back up (without having to resolve to special backup software)
There is much I prefer about system 9...
Hope that helps get the cogs turnin'
Best,
Alyssa.
:)
"If someone, holding fast to the name of Bodhisattva Perceiver of
the World's Sounds should enter a great fire, the fire could not
burn him...If one were washed away by a great flood and call upon
his name, one would immediately find himself in a shallow
place." (The Lotus Sutra)
On 22-Sep-05, at 9:13 PM, Aaron Levinson wrote:
Dear Tech Folks-
I am running a pro-tools rig( 2 888 24's) and we recently
purchased an external drive so we were not saving session files
to the same drive that the application is running on. The
computer is a dual processor G4 tower. After a few attempts to drag
and save the session files onto the external drive we concluded
that the drive was not being recognized as it should be.
To make a hideously long story somewhat shorter, I retrieved the
original box the drive came in and discovered, much to my
chagrin, that the device will not operate with anything earlier
than OS 9.2. I am, of course, running OS 9.1! Okay so we go to
the mac.com site and download the OS 9.2 update file onto the
external drive and plug it back into the firewire port on the
back of the G4. However, as the engineers out there will no doubt
notice at this point we are caught in an audio Catch-22- the
system still
cannot recognize the external drive that now has the 9.2 updater
on it cause the G4 can't find it- its still running 9.1! So we
tried
to burn OS 9.2 to a CD instead and take it off the CD. However,
very mysteriously this solution did not work...Now I'm puzzled.
The error prompt we get says that the install cannot be completed
because the computer can't read and I quote, "the installation
tome". What on God's green earth is an "Installation Tome"(Sound
Joycean and imposing in any case) and how do I get
this to work. The external drive is made by a company called
Western Digital I believe...Can anyone far smarter than
moi lend a digital hand on this bit of arcane computerese? What
are we doing wrong and what do we need to do to get it
to work. I have updated the OS on various macs I've owned over
the years and I've never had this kind of problem or seen
this prompt. Any thoughts?
Aaron Luis Levinson
Libertad Records
Conshohocken, PA