Mac P2 Store fails to mount volumes? Solution here

[Barry_Green]

From the Panasonic P2 FAQ:
https://eww.pavc.panasonic.co.jp/pro-av/support/cs/csregistp2m/ep2main/faq/P2store_macmount_e.pdf

[kstnate]

boy that engish translation is bad. good find. too bad it is just a workaround. But boy would I love a patch....
And while they are at it, write a patch for p2 drivers.

[SPZ]

Well, sometimes even if you see it in disk utility it doesn't mount...

But its good to see Panasonic looking into the Mac side of things... Now when is that firmware with the "flip"function, last clip deletion and additional gamma curves, as well as the option to trim and edit clips? ;)

[DCSensui]

As a precaution I use a dry erase pen to mark the number of cards loaded into the P2 Store. I'll write the number on the inside of the clear plastic cover so it won't rub off accidentally. If I transfer fewer than 7 partitions I can make sure all the expected partitions have mounted on the Mac when transferring from the P2 Store to my archive.

I got "bit" once and this prevents it from happening again.

[Barry_Green]

Nice tip; I'm going to start recommending that too.

If you transfer 11 or more partitions then you can use the HDD Capacity buttons to see how many cards you've transferred, but if it's less than 11 there's not really a way to know, so your marker idea would certainly work (for those diligent enough to follow through!)

[Mark Smith]

Here is scan of the P2 store UI version .01 that I sent to Jan Crittenden after a many card shoot day. And this was before I realized there was a bug in OSX...

[rgbuser]

I've found that simply ejecting any volumes which are mounted, unplugguing the USB2, then reconnecting often causes all volumes to show up - this on MacBook Pro with 10.4.8.

[Mark Smith]

A remount of the store often does the trick of making all volumes show up, but that is really a joke. What kind of prefeessional work flow would tolerate this kind of sketchy behavior? The other day on a 2 camera HVX shoot, we were mounting and unmounting P2 stores on various laptops to get an idea of how many volumes were there. Sometimes 5 volumes would appear and other times 8 would show up. That's truly Bull Shit and I think I might go out and buy a cheep PC laptop just have the peace of mind it would afford with P2 Media.

[booggerg2]

macs are rubbish. My portable USB drive would often show up under disk utilities but would not mount despite clicking the "Mount" button. No errors messages or anything are presented to the user so we don't really have anything to investigate on. My usual solution is to boot to WinXP via bootcamp and access the drive there(which is always visible). Then erase all of the cryptic files and folders that are added by OS X (files for trash bin etc..) leaving only the folders and files that I created. Reboot into OSX and the drive would show up as normal.

I hope my first HVX+P2 store shoot this weekend won't run into any OSX problems. However we'll have a WinXP laptop there as well

[andrewg]

Am I correct in understanding that it's currenty a BIG HASSLE )(if possibile at all) to use the P2-Store with Mac Book Pro, i.e. the machines with Intel Core Duo processors? Is there a way around this or should we use a PC with Win XP.......???

[berserkerfilms]

p2 genie, p2 log, FCP, etc.. when all of these programs gave me various importing problems I started using disk utility to open up files that didn't want to mount, I would go through each one and just click on mount and sometimes everything would be perfect and other times i would find one or two that failed to mount then i would use genie, or FCP or the log to transfer the mounted files. I also started making a copy of the raw data that had never been imported by fcp on another external via the 400 or 800 firewire, whatever one wasn't being used at the time until the project was finished.

this was the most helpful in fixing errors, os problems, and fcp issues etc.

but straight up disk utility is the way to go

[pilotroc]

Hey Barry, I've owned my HVX for 2 yrs and all has worked well.. Today I shot a small amt of footage, offloaded to my P2 store, but my mac would not recognize any volumes. I read here about missing volumes, so I shot some more footage and one volume showed up on my desktop but not the orginal footage.. My PC P2 manager shows 10 volumes in the PP2 store and all drives are Good. My Mac disk utility only recognizes the one volume and it passes verification and will download properly. My problem is my orginal footage will not mount. Any suggestionns??

Love your book and Love the HVX, I'll send some footage by a UCLA group- outstanding film-like blacks
Sincerely Pilotroc

[Barry_Green]

I'm not a Mac user so I don't know what to tell you; you've tried the procedure outlined in the PDF I assume?

If you can't get it to work, I say plug it into a Windows system and offload all the volumes there...

[Justyn]

macs are rubbish. My portable USB drive would often show up under disk utilities but would not mount despite clicking the "Mount" button. No errors messages or anything are presented to the user so we don't really have anything to investigate on. My usual solution is to boot to WinXP via bootcamp and access the drive there(which is always visible). Then erase all of the cryptic files and folders that are added by OS X (files for trash bin etc..) leaving only the folders and files that I created. Reboot into OSX and the drive would show up as normal.

I hope my first HVX+P2 store shoot this weekend won't run into any OSX problems. However we'll have a WinXP laptop there as well


I think this might be the only thing our beloved Macs don't kick PCs over. I had a similar thing with a friends system, but has always worked fine on mine..