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A time saver:

Typically, if you eject an external drive on Jaguar, Panther or Tiger and want to mount it again, you have to power cycle the drive, or unplug, then plug it back in. If your drive is in a tough-to-get-at spot or possibly across the room, these methods might get a bit obnoxious. Fortunately, there is a handy trip around this: if the drive has been ejected but is still powered on, simply start up Disk Utility to find the drive listed, but greyed out. Click on the drive, hit the Mount button in Disk Utility’s toolbar, and stay in your seat for once to let your drive come running back into your desktop’s arms. Read more

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