How Do I Get HD To Show Up in USB Mode?

My Mac reads the flash card perfectly but does not show the hard drive, it says "You have inserted a disk containing no volumes that Mac OS X can read. To continue with the disk inserted, click Ignore." My options are Ignore, Initialize and Eject lol. Pretty sure that Initialize will erase everything. Question is should I save everthing to the flash card and format hard drive from MPC or from my Mac by hitting Initialize?

Tried it on a pc and the hard drive showed up..........but I use Macs lol. Any ideas howto get my Mac to read it without completely deleting everything? Its a 320 gb hd.

save everything on the flash or external HD. Initialize on mac. See if it works.

diegoeskryptic wrote:save everything on the flash or external HD. Initialize on mac. See if it works.

If you decide to do this, please tell us if it worked.

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I found that after connecting the MPC5000 to my Mac Pro after numerous times, all of a sudden the hard drive on the MPC would appear on my desktop. After that, it didn't have a problem showing when I would connect it. Don't ask me how many times, but it will eventually show up on your desktop. If I had to guess, I would say no more then ten tries, but that's guessing.

monogee wrote:I found that after connecting the MPC5000 to my Mac Pro after numerous times, all of a sudden the hard drive on the MPC would appear on my desktop.

And you didn't do any OS update, or something, on the Mac in the meantime? Very strange.

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Only prob is that I have more stuff on mpc than my external HDs will handle lol.

Screw it, deleting everything now Hitting initialize didnt work

reformatted on mpc.......back to square one

RAGTOPROY wrote:Its a 320 gb hd.

That could be the complicating factor.

Sovereign wrote:

RAGTOPROY wrote:Its a 320 gb hd.

That could be the complicating factor.

Why is that?

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Peer wrote:

Sovereign wrote:

RAGTOPROY wrote:Its a 320 gb hd.

That could be the complicating factor.

Why is that?

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That's a bit excessive for the MPC, so it may actually be formatting it in a way that makes the Mac see a nonstandard Volume.

Sovereign wrote:That's a bit excessive [320GB hard drive] for the MPC, so it may actually be formatting it in a way that makes the Mac see a nonstandard Volume.

Although I'm not disputing this, I still wonder why a 320GB (or a 500GB for that matter) won't work in the MPC5k since it uses a normal bus..? Beats me.

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Peer wrote:

Sovereign wrote:That's a bit excessive [320GB hard drive] for the MPC, so it may actually be formatting it in a way that makes the Mac see a nonstandard Volume.

Although I'm not disputing this, I still wonder why a 320GB (or a 500GB for that matter) won't work in the MPC5k since it uses a normal bus..? Beats me.

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Nobody said it won't work in the MPC.
What I'm referring to is that when a Mac sees hard drives it looks for the Volume to have certain aspects that it can interpet.
Similar to how a Mac won't boot from a partition that isn't created with the right software.
The Akai format is not totally true to format and may be creating a differential in the structure when using larger drives that the Mac is misinterpeting so it won't mount, it wants to initialize it instead.

Akai had a reason for listing the maximum size for CF Cards and Hard Drives.