Where's j0ker?????

[Poeia]

A vexing problem no doubt. I take it that you have rebooted? It is unlikely that the cord has gone bad, unless you had some little furry creatures chewing on it. They usually get disinterested in it once they hit the coax sheath of a firewire cable, preferring bird food or even belly button lint by a wide margin. Assuming that it is connected back up to the MMini and is powered, and the MMini boots up, do you notice any blinking of the drive light during that process?

Ooh. 4 pages to catch up on. I'll answer this first.
It's been a while. I've rebooted several times for a variety of reasons (including the whole thing slowing down and wanting more memory to play with.) It isn't mice. My MMini and external drives are on shelves about 4 feet off the ground.

One day I just noticed it wasn't showing up. On the side of my desktop there is the hard drive, my Time Machine and my Video Back Up. (The last 2 are on a partitioned 1TB disk.) This is a WD 500GB disk. The white light runs up and down as if it is working. When I unplugged it last night, my computer yelled at me for not dismounting it first but there was nothing to dismount -- how do you tell it to disconnect something that it thinks isn't there?

If it plugged into a USB port the solution would be to plug it into another one. If it worked, dead port on MMini. If it didn't, bad WD.

Not a highly vexing problem -- 90% of what is on there is also on my iPod (which has a larger hard drive than my computer does -- I got one of the BIG, old 160GB iPods.) I had been translating some of my DVDs to iPod format so I could watch them on the go. One batch is on that external drive but not the other one, but they are on my iPod and I have the original DVDs. Everything else is duplicated on both external drives.

Basically I'm just picking your (you, Lis, anyone else who knows) brains to see if I need to spend $60 for a replacement.

 

[Liscab]

I love the light off beautiful Maria

 

[zelda]

I could tell by the smell

Hmmm not sure if THAT sounds gentlemanly.

 

[CES]

Hi Jane.

i don't really have a clue- all i can say is that the times I've had something similar happen it's been a problem with the external drive. But they were USB PC external hard drives, and i don't know if if my experiences apply to macs and firewire.

 

[Liscab]

Ooh. 4 pages to catch up on. I'll answer this first.
It's been a while. I've rebooted several times for a variety of reasons (including the whole thing slowing down and wanting more memory to play with.) It isn't mice. My MMini and external drives are on shelves about 4 feet off the ground.

One day I just noticed it wasn't showing up. On the side of my desktop there is the hard drive, my Time Machine and my Video Back Up. (The last 2 are on a partitioned 1TB disk.) This is a WD 500GB disk. The white light runs up and down as if it is working. When I unplugged it last night, my computer yelled at me for not dismounting it first but there was nothing to dismount -- how do you tell it to disconnect something that it thinks isn't there?

If it plugged into a USB port the solution would be to plug it into another one. If it worked, dead port on MMini. If it didn't, bad WD.

Not a highly vexing problem -- 90% of what is on there is also on my iPod (which has a larger hard drive than my computer does -- I got one of the BIG, old 160GB iPods.) I had been translating some of my DVDs to iPod format so I could watch them on the go. One batch is on that external drive but not the other one, but they are on my iPod and I have the original DVDs. Everything else is duplicated on both external drives.

Basically I'm just picking your (you, Lis, anyone else who knows) brains to see if I need to spend $60 for a replacement.

now i am so kind of lost

 

[Liscab]

Hmmm not sure if THAT sounds gentlemanly.

a nice perfume is never forgotten

 

[zelda]

I wish I could help you Poeia. Hopefully Ralph will know.

 

[zelda]

a nice perfume is never forgotten

Good answer!! OK I really should shut down the puter.

Goodnight everyone. Have a good evening.

 

[Digimon2k]

g'night, Zelda! Sleep well!

 

[Liscab]

I am leaving too

shutting down the puter

i dont wanna be late to Z bed

 

[Liscab]

Good night every one

shutting down my PC

 

[CES]

Good night Zelda and Lis.

 

[Digimon2k]

Good night, Lis! Sleep well!

 

[Digimon2k]

So... whaddya up to this evening/night, CES?

 

[notsoogood]

Sorry! Though everbody left!! Lissy!! I love the sig line!!!!

Hi Chris and my buddy Z!!! <<< for both of you!

And I missed both Z and Lissy!!! Goodnight you two!! Love you both!!

 

[CES]

Hi Nora!! are we really here at the same time?

 

[Poeia]

Jane I understand the caution. Pictures I got on disk and there's a couple things I work on a lot so I back them up constantly. I'm so paranoid about these that I even send the file to Hotmail.

Been there. But there are so many restrictions on the size of the file. Mobile Me is $60 for the first year and $100 after that. I've got 20GB of space online. It also has a calendar and contact list that automatically sync with my computer. (If I had an iPhone, that would sync too.) I figured I try it and wouldn't renew it. But it's turned out to be very convenient for off-site storage.

The retirement community my Dad lives in had us all go to an annual meeting about paperwork. That was a good prod to get him to give us copies of everything and update it all (we didn't know his current doctor, no one had a complete list of his meds, etc.) So my sister and I used it to pass large files back and forth and, when we finished, I put up a zipped folder with it all in it. If there's ever an emergency (he'll be 92 next month), we won't have to run around looking for the medical proxy or the power of attorney before leaving. We can just download it when we get there.

 

[Digimon2k]

So, smNorie, what are you doing to help combat the infestation of irascibly iridescent interloping intruders that have invaded this land?




(no... I haven't a clue what I'm talking about...)

 

[CES]

Got home just a bit ago Deej....long work day, followed by a beer with a friend. Could have been worse

 

[notsoogood]

Hi Nora!! are we really here at the same time?

Yes we really really are!!! I have missed you Chris. I have been so busy though!!