Hello:

I'm a long-time Mac user, but a recent migrant from 9.2.2 to 10.3.9, so
please bear with me...

Please answer these questions for me, if you can:
1--In the Finder, when I go to "Shut Down...", I have to choose it twice
before it actually begins to shut down the machine. The second time, I get
some blurb about the machine automatically shutting itself down in so-and-so
amount of seconds. Why can't I just choose "Shut Down..." and have the ****
thing actually SHUT DOWN? Why do I have to do it twice? Is there some
setting somewhere that I need to re-set?

2--I have an Imation SuperDisk drive, and an Iomega 100mb Zip Drive hooked
up to this Mac Mini--both are USB, and both are hooked up through a 7-port
Belkin USB hub. The Operating System will fail to recognize the Iomega Zip
Drive 100% of the time, even though I have downloaded the most recent
drivers. And about 50% of the time, it will fail to recognize the Imation
SuperDisk drive, especially if I eject one disk and insert another. Usually,
the only way I can get it to recognize the new disk is to restart the
machine.

Can anyone shed any light on why this is happening and what I need to do to
fix the problem? I have hooked both drives directly to the Mac Mini,
bypassing the hub, but seems to not help a single bit. I welcome any input,
and thank you in advance for your assistance!

--Guy
Thurston, OR

On 5/6/05 12:05 AM, in article BE9FE6BF.3F0E%gwkuddles@comcast.net, "Guy
Kudlemyer" <gwkuddles@comcast.net> wrote:

> Hello:
>
> I'm a long-time Mac user, but a recent migrant from 9.2.2 to 10.3.9, so
> please bear with me...
>
> Please answer these questions for me, if you can:
> 1--In the Finder, when I go to "Shut Down...", I have to choose it twice
> before it actually begins to shut down the machine. The second time, I get
> some blurb about the machine automatically shutting itself down in so-and-so
> amount of seconds. Why can't I just choose "Shut Down..." and have the ****
> thing actually SHUT DOWN? Why do I have to do it twice? Is there some
> setting somewhere that I need to re-set?
>
> 2--I have an Imation SuperDisk drive, and an Iomega 100mb Zip Drive hooked
> up to this Mac Mini--both are USB, and both are hooked up through a 7-port
> Belkin USB hub. The Operating System will fail to recognize the Iomega Zip
> Drive 100% of the time, even though I have downloaded the most recent
> drivers. And about 50% of the time, it will fail to recognize the Imation
> SuperDisk drive, especially if I eject one disk and insert another. Usually,
> the only way I can get it to recognize the new disk is to restart the
> machine.
>
> Can anyone shed any light on why this is happening and what I need to do to
> fix the problem? I have hooked both drives directly to the Mac Mini,
> bypassing the hub, but seems to not help a single bit. I welcome any input,
> and thank you in advance for your assistance!
>
> --Guy
> Thurston, OR
>
I would say you have hardware problems with the Mac Mini. Take it back to
the store, take your two peripherals with you, and if they can be plugged
into any other mac and be seen, but not yours, the problem is the machine
itself.

One might try reinstalling the software (the os) first, though.

Hope that helps.

ej

[Guy Kudlemyer wrote in comp.sys.mac]
> Please answer these questions for me, if you can:
> 1--In the Finder, when I go to "Shut Down...", I have to choose it twice
> before it actually begins to shut down the machine. The second time, I get
> some blurb about the machine automatically shutting itself down in so-and-so
> amount of seconds. Why can't I just choose "Shut Down..." and have the ****
> thing actually SHUT DOWN? Why do I have to do it twice? Is there some
> setting somewhere that I need to re-set?

What applications do you have running at the time ? It's very possible
that shutdown is waiting for a process to finish cleanly, and by selecting
shutdown again you're forcing the process to exit immediately.

I'm guessing that the shutdown option on the apple menu calls the
unix shutdown(1) command - you could try opening a Terminal,
typing :

sudo -s
[your password when prompted]
shutdown -h now

.... and see if it gives you any clues ?

Good luck,
Andy


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