Flash drive error on OS X.Panther.9

[zoowart]

I plugged my flash drive into a G4 933 MHZ 1.5 gig RAM Silver tower Running X.Panther.9 and I got the following error when the drive tried to mount:

"You have inserted a disk containing no columes that Mac OS X can read. To continue with the disk inserted, click ignore."

With 3 options available; Initiate, ignore, eject.

Initiated did nothing, ignore did nothing and eject disconnected it from the system as I looked at it in disk utility. I ran a disk check on it and no problems resulted so I decided to blasphemize and plugged it into a PC. No error, all data was accessible and recoverable. I then plugged it into a machine running X.Tiger.11 and received no error and all the data was accessible. I ran the slewy of disk utility apps that existed between all the machines I just described to see if that would fix the issue. It didn't and the situation remains the same, the PC and the Tiger could read it but the X.panther.9 could not. So I busted out one more Panther machine a 400 MHZ G3 with 512 MB RAM and I get the error too.

This is all the information that I so far have. If you have any suggestions on how I can get this fixed on the computer I am supposed to be using that would be much appreciated. I also will not accept backing up and formatting my disk as an option unless many more possibilities are exhausted.

-Andrew

[zoowart]

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[Giaguara]

Is that USB flash formatted FAT of NTFS?
Did you try all the different USB ports? Directly on the Mac, not via hubs etc?

[Kees Buijs]

Originally Posted by zoowart

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The only conclusion you can draw is that panther does not understand the flash disk correctly, either not the hardware or not the drive format. As initiate (format i guess) does nothing, it looks like panther does not understand the hardware correctly.


Good luck, Kees