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LaCie drives I thought were dead are not at all…
This is completely weird. About a month or so ago, 3 of my LaCie Firewire 400 drives started acting up, blinking and not mounting, and one or two of them were ticking but quietly, and one finally would not mount at all. I had been in the process of backing it up, and it completely died or so I thought. I had a lot of business stuff on that drive, and I almost sent it in for recovery, but didn’t. Instead I tried putting it in different enclosures, and even two Macs, to no avail.
Then this morning I had some free time, so I thought I’d try again and see if they would mount, mind you, now all three would not mount on my G5 and were blinking and ticking. I got to thinking “how in heck could all three die at the same time?” They were not mounting on my machines running 10.4.9, so I hauled out my old G4 450 (running 10.4.8) and fired it up. Well guess what, all three drives are up on that old machine and humming along like the day I bought them.
So, does this mean they need to be re-formatted on a 10.4.9 machine? If so, how to get them to boot on one so I could do that? What other solution so I can use them again on my newer machines?
Also, could it be that others here who think drives have died could be experiencing the same conflicts? I’m delighted I got my data back but I’m perplexed…
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At our office we have had at least 4 of them go bad. 2 of them actually started smoking when hooked up to mac systems. The main problem with those that ive found out is not really the drives but more the actual cases. Ive taken those drives out of those cases and bought generic 2 drive cases and put them in their and they fired up right away. I tell people on a daily basis to stay away from those. Go with g-tech or build your own drive. Cooldrives.com make nice cases with raid controllers you can outfit with drives of your desire.
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[scotts1919] “Go with g-tech or build your own drive”
Not the new G-RAID2 models though. They are not nearly as good as the original G-RAID’s.
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yes this is very true! Forgot to mention that, thanks walter
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Thanks for the quick answers, but it is still not explained why my 3 drives will boot on my old system and not my 10.4.9 system? And how to fix?
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We only use LaCie’s in our office, all DV editing. We have 5 different ones and all have lasted at least 2 years, some 4+. We are running 10.4.9 on all our machines as well. No problems. There are problems with every brand of external drives. Can’t help with the problem that started this thread though. Sorry.
Scott Robinson
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[Chris Poisson] “Thanks for the quick answers, but it is still not explained why my 3 drives will boot on my old system and not my 10.4.9 system? And how to fix?”
In my case it was the motherboard on the G5 that had the Firewire 400 ports fried… the 800 port was fine. Replaced motherboard (under warranty) and drives were okay again. 😉
Best,
HarleyHarley Michailuck
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Jeeze,
After all this BS about operationg systems, I traced the problem to a bad LaCie power supply. A good thing to check next time you think a drive has died or is dying.
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whats wrong with the G-RAID2?
I’ve setup 2 clients with them and there has not been a problem capturing uncompressed sd 10-bit or playing directly from it when outputting to tape using firewire 800 via fcp.
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It is also possible that they are working right now because they have rested for the past month not being used. If that ticking sound was coming from the drive itself, and not something else in the enclosure then most likely after the drive gets some use it will stop working again.
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[scotts1919] “2 of them actually started smoking when hooked up to mac systems.”
Sounds like you put your FireWire cable in upside-down. It fries the board.
This is the number one reason for dead firewire drives (that people blame on the drive, of course)
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