How do I mount my Iomega 340 mb Microdrive from a Mac OS X 10.3 command prompt?

Okay,

I don't have a Mac in front of me nor do I have a Microdrive.

Maybe it would help if you would tell me what one is? Did you have it installed when you booted? And can you recognize it in dmesg?

I am going to google this and see if I find anything.

The Finder says it doesn't recognize the drive, I assume with the correct Unix addon it should be able to read FAT and FAT32 (whichever it is), also I'm using a 7 in 1 media reader to mount the device. It says right in the thread's title the model number of the drive. Oh, and by the way I already searched for it at www.alltheweb.com, but you're free to Google it if you want (Alltheweb is a metasearch engine and google isn't, thus the odds of finding anything useful on Google are slim to none, I also recommend Dogpile and Ixquick as metasearch engines with Ixquick being the better of the two.).

Hmm, can you see the drive in dmesg?

I would answer your question, but I don't know what dmesg is.

dmesg is a command. It will print out the messages from the kernel and the system as it boots or important stuff happens. A sample of mine:

dmesg:
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 863866631 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
GEOM: create disk ad0 dp=0xc3199060
ad0: 28629MB <QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30.0> [58168/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66
GEOM: create disk ad1 dp=0xc3178a60
ad1: 57220MB <WDC WD600BB-75CAA0> [116257/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA100
acd0: CDRW <LITE-ON LTR-16102B> at ata1-master PIO4
::

That is just a sample... it normally is very long. Somewhere in there you should see the device where the microdrive is expected to be. If it is connected at boot and indentified itself then you will see the actual drive information. If not, then you should see the port where you did plug it in. The device name is right at the start of the line. For example. My CD burner... I see a device that listed itself as CDRW <LITE... etc> at device acd0. So that is the device I can expect my cd burner to respond at.

If we can find the device of your microdrive we can attempt
mount -t msdos /dev/microdrivedevicex /mount/point

Which should load it from the command line. Although I might have the -t flag wrong... I don't have os X man pages in front of me.

Mods, could you please change the thread title to Mounting Iomega 340 mb. Microdrive? I made a mistake when I made the title, and I want it to be easier to search for.

Here's the output from dmesg: using 655 buffer headers and 655 cluster IO buffer headers
Local FireWire GUID = 0x393ff:0xfec162fe
Security auditing service present
BSM auditing present
From path: "/pci@f2000000/mac-io@17/ata-4@1f000/@0:5,\\mach_kernel", Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOPathMatch</key><string ID="1">IODeviceTree:/pci@f2000000/mac-io@17/ata-4@1f000/@0:5</string></dict>
Got boot device = IOService:/MacRISC2PE/pci@f2000000/AppleMacRiscPCI/mac-io@17/AppleKeyLargo/ata-4@1f000/KeyLargoATA/ATADeviceNub@0/IOATABlockStorageDriver/IOATABlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDriver/Maxtor 4D040H2 Media/IOApplePartitionScheme/MacOS@5
BSD root: disk0s5, major 14, minor 5
Jettisoning kernel linker.
Resetting IOCatalogue.
Matching service count = 1
NVDANV10HAL loaded and registered.
AppleRS232Serial: 0 0 AppleRS232Serial::start - returning false early, Connector or machine incorrect
AirPortFirmware: start Sta f/w download
UniNEnet: Ethernet address 00:03:93:c1:62:fe
AirPortDriver: Ethernet address 00:30:65:0a:30:3d
IOFireWireIP: FireWire address 00:03:93:ff:fe:c1:62:fe
ApplePMUUserClient::setProperties WakeOnACchange 0
NVDA::doDriverIO() allocating ndrv instance data rec. fNDRVInstanceData = 0x050c5000
NVDA,Display-A: vram [98000000:04000000]
IP packet filtering initialized, divert enabled, rule-based forwarding enabled, default to accept, logging disabled
IPv6 packet filtering initialized, default to accept, logging disabled
IP firewall loaded
disk2: I/O error.
disk2: I/O error.
disk2: I/O error.
disk2: I/O error.
disk2: I/O error.
disk2: I/O error.
The Microdrive isn't even mentioned in the output.