LaCie drives I thought were dead are not at all…

[Ron James]

[Chris Poisson] “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.”

That was my first thought. Either bad power supply or WRONG power supply. I had a friend with multiple LaCie drives (and all the stupid wallwarts that go with them) and he mixed up the wallwarts (because they all look exactly the same) and used one that goes with a 120 GB with a 500 GB and the exact same thing happened: the light just kept blinking and would not mount.

I only buy external drives with built-in power supplies now. Can’t stand all those bricks all over the place.

[J. Tad newberry]

…I just experienced the same thing. One drive wasn’t booting up all of a sudden, and causing the computer to crash (you know, that kernel thingy where you get this nice vertical wipe saying, “restart your computer, blah, blah, blah”). I messed with the cables today. Saw that the power supply to the faulty drive was pretty hot, so unplugged it, let it cool. I have two identical 500GB Quadras and tried the other power supply on what seemed like the bad drive. It fired right up. After the power supply cooled, it worked, too. Sooo, maybe i’ll just throw a little fan behind my computers where these cords and power supplies reside and hopefully that will take care o’ the problem? Are there “better” power supplys to buy for the LaCie puppies? It sounds like a fairly common problem.

Thanks again!

J. Tad Newberry
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