OS 10.5 - Anyone having external hard drive issues with 10.5.6?

MattSharp · MattSharp #1 (**permalink**)

01-29-2009, 09:38 PM

So I am having issues with my Metal Gear Box external hard drive (it's USB with IDE inside).

If I put my computer to sleep, wake it, and try to shutdown or restart, it just hangs. I spent a good deal of time today to confirm that it was indeed having this drive hooked up that did it.

I have an extra Mac that didn't have 10.5.6 yet and I couldn't re-produce the error. I upgraded to 10.5.6 and was able to re-create the problem on the 2nd Mac.

Has anyone else seen this? I guess I just have to give up on this drive for now.

chscag · chscag #2 (**permalink**)

01-29-2009, 10:02 PM

Might be peculiar to that particular drive as both my external USB hard drives work normally with 10.5.6.

I tried to find out what some of the changes were from 10.5.5 to 10.5.6 but most articles I read listed only the more visible changes. However, there were 39 changes - one that did catch my eye was an update to the way Leopard syncs hardware. I'm not sure if that refers to things like an iPOD, or Cell Phone, or maybe an external hard drive?

It's not uncommon for an update to break something. The update from 10.5.4 to 10.5.5 broke my hurricane tracking program.

Regards.

MattSharp · MattSharp #3 (**permalink**)

01-29-2009, 10:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chscag

Might be peculiar to that particular drive as both my external USB hard drives work normally with 10.5.6.

I tried to find out what some of the changes were from 10.5.5 to 10.5.6 but most articles I read listed only the more visible changes. However, there were 39 changes - one that did catch my eye was an update to the way Leopard syncs hardware. I'm not sure if that refers to things like an iPOD, or Cell Phone, or maybe an external hard drive?

It's not uncommon for an update to break something. The update from 10.5.4 to 10.5.5 broke my hurricane tracking program.

Regards.

Thanks for the input. Yea, I have another external drive that is working fine. I found that when I removed the drive from the enclosure and hooked it up with another adapter it worked fine. So it pretty much has to be the enclosure. Not a huge deal. It was a pretty cheap one and only did PATA drives so it was going to replaced someday.

garbx · garbx #4 (**permalink**)

03-05-2009, 11:02 PM

I have a Macbook Air 10.5.6

I'm new to Macs - this is my first one, bought it yesterday. I plugged in my Toshiba external HD with all my important docs and it isnt being recognized... I'm not sure what to do.

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MattSharp #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Oct 24, 2006 Posts: 95	01-29-2009, 09:38 PM So I am having issues with my Metal Gear Box external hard drive (it's USB with IDE inside). If I put my computer to sleep, wake it, and try to shutdown or restart, it just hangs. I spent a good deal of time today to confirm that it was indeed having this drive hooked up that did it. I have an extra Mac that didn't have 10.5.6 yet and I couldn't re-produce the error. I upgraded to 10.5.6 and was able to re-create the problem on the 2nd Mac. Has anyone else seen this? I guess I just have to give up on this drive for now.
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chscag #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 23, 2008 Location: Fort Worth, Texas Posts: 32,378 Mac Specs: 21.5" iMac 2.5 GHz i5, iPad 3rd Gen., 3 iPods	01-29-2009, 10:02 PM Might be peculiar to that particular drive as both my external USB hard drives work normally with 10.5.6. I tried to find out what some of the changes were from 10.5.5 to 10.5.6 but most articles I read listed only the more visible changes. However, there were 39 changes - one that did catch my eye was an update to the way Leopard syncs hardware. I'm not sure if that refers to things like an iPOD, or Cell Phone, or maybe an external hard drive? It's not uncommon for an update to break something. The update from 10.5.4 to 10.5.5 broke my hurricane tracking program. Regards.
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garbx #4 (permalink)
Member Since: Mar 04, 2009 Posts: 3	03-05-2009, 11:02 PM I have a Macbook Air 10.5.6 I'm new to Macs - this is my first one, bought it yesterday. I plugged in my Toshiba external HD with all my important docs and it isnt being recognized... I'm not sure what to do.
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