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LaCie drive issues
Hi all. Having some hard drive issues. One of my 500GB LaCie d2 Big Disk Extreme FW800 drives is being a royal pain in the ***!! I have two of them striped as a RAID 1 set, and every time the computer wakes up from sleep, one of the drives goes into this “perpetual blinking” mode, as if it wants to wake up, but can’t. So, I end up having to turn my Mac off completely (not just a restart) if I want to use the drives. Also, after I turn off the computer, I have to switch the drives on first and wait for them to go through their motions (kinda like a SCSI raid set), and THEN turn on the computer. And even then, sometimes the computer gives me a warning sign after it turns on, saying that the “drives connected are not readable by the computer, do I want to eject, ignore, or initialize.” So, what I typically do is, press “ignore,” wait for two minutes, turn the drives off at their LED’s, then turn them back on, wait for them to spin up, and then the computer will eventually recognize and mount the raid.
And then, once the drives are mounted, I go into Disk Utility and try to verify and repair the disks, but the computer tells me there are no repairs necessary on the raid set. Yet…when the computer doesn’t mount them at startup, it tells me the volume needs repair and can’t even verify the disks. I don’t get it. Do I have a partially corrupted drive, or do I need to somehow defragment it, perhaps with something other than Disk Utility? Last year I had no issues with these drives. This is a recent, recurring problem. And it all started, I think, when, all of a sudden, I’d wake up in the morning, and the computer was turned off. And I KNOW I had put it to sleep, not turned it off. After months of “spontaneous late-night shutdowns,” one of the drives starting having hick-ups. And I have no idea how come the computer has been shutting itself down when I’ve been putting it to sleep. And it’s getting increasingly more annoying.
One bright side is that at least when the drives are mounted, and I’m using them to edit video, they perform beautifully. But God knows what’s going on when they go to sleep…
Here’s my system info:
Powermac G5, Dual 2.3 Ghz (NOT Intel core duo)
1.5 GB RAM
OX 10.4.8
Final Cut Studio
Two Lacie 500GB External FW800 d2 Big Disk Extreme drives – striped as a RAID 1 inside Disk UtilityAny thoughts will be highly appreciated.
Thanks.
Aaron“Be the dream, NOT the dreamer!”
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7 Replies
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Aaron,
One of the first things to do when setting up FCP system is to turn off all the sleep functions and all power saving features. All drive manufacturers handle the wake up thing differently, and all handle it poorly. The ssoner you disable those “features” the better off you’ll be.
DRW
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[Aaron D Hose] “and every time the computer wakes up from sleep, one of the drives goes into this “perpetual blinking” mode, as if it wants to wake up, but can’t.”
Ditto to what David said, turn OFF all Energy Saver / Sleep features on the Computer. These should NEVER be used when using external media drives.
[Aaron D Hose] “And then, once the drives are mounted, I go into Disk Utility and try to verify and repair the disks, but the computer tells me there are no repairs necessary on the raid set. Yet…when the computer doesn’t mount them at startup, it tells me the volume needs repair and can’t even verify the disks. I don’t get it.”
You should not Repair Disk Permissions on external drives during a project. This can inadvertently break some links between FCP and the project media. If you’re really having problems with a drive, move all the media off that drive, erase it, then move all media back on to that drive.
[Aaron D Hose] “But God knows what’s going on when they go to sleep…”
Again, turn OFF all sleep functions on your machine.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
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I had some similiare issues with my drives that are cofigured like yours. I send them back and they gave me new power supplies and new firmware. Never had these problems again. Keep my fingers crossed though
Kool En De Anderen
dual 1.8 gig G5/Mac OS 10.4.8/Kona 2/Hugh 800 G diskarray, fibrechannel/FCP 5.1.2/AE 7 Pro
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Screen as well?
Mick
PowerMac G5 2.3 MHz, FC Studio, 3 x Lacie external
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[Miodrag Ristic] “Screen as well?”
Nope, putting the display to sleep is fine.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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I have a 125 gig LaCie (1394 Disk drive LUN 0)
(not in a RAID) Just a stand alone 400 firewire. Anyway it acts the same way. It started making odd noises — like a ‘ticking water meter’ if that means anything to anybody. About a tenth of the time it won’t mount. I get the box ‘drives connected are not readable by the computer, do I want to eject, ignore, or initialize’ Turn off at the blue light and turn back on. It will mount. I took off the project files and put them on another firewire. I still have it but I think I’m throwing it away.Richard
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[Richard Blakeslee] “It started making odd noises — like a ‘ticking water meter’ if that means anything to anybody.”
Hey I could send you my G-RAID 800 that makes a tremendous metal on metal screeching sound for the first minute or so that it’s running and you’ll be halfway to a band. 🙂
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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