Short version: is there a way to 'reset' or 'force mount' an external HD via a terminal command or something?
Back story: I have a Seagate Freeagent GoFlex 1TB external HD. I plugged it on my TV and was watching a movie. I then turned the TV off while the movie was playing out of the HD. Now the TV doesn't recognize the drive and it is not mounted on my Mac.
When I plug it on the Mac, the working leds light up and I can feel that the disks are spinning. I used the command 'system_profiler' and I see that the operating system sees the disk, but it has a permanent flag called 'busy' with the value 1.
My guess is that the drive is on a kind of infinite loop inside and because of this the computer keeps waiting for it to finish its job, which it never does.
I have tried multiple USB ports, rebooting, putting the Mac to sleep (so it could force the drive to stop). Nothing has worked.
Is there a way to make the drive stop so it can get mounted?
Thanks.
Back story: I have a Seagate Freeagent GoFlex 1TB external HD. I plugged it on my TV and was watching a movie. I then turned the TV off while the movie was playing out of the HD. Now the TV doesn't recognize the drive and it is not mounted on my Mac.
When I plug it on the Mac, the working leds light up and I can feel that the disks are spinning. I used the command 'system_profiler' and I see that the operating system sees the disk, but it has a permanent flag called 'busy' with the value 1.
My guess is that the drive is on a kind of infinite loop inside and because of this the computer keeps waiting for it to finish its job, which it never does.
I have tried multiple USB ports, rebooting, putting the Mac to sleep (so it could force the drive to stop). Nothing has worked.
Is there a way to make the drive stop so it can get mounted?
Thanks.