LaCie FW800 drive and other firewire devices problem

[Jerry Hofmann]

I don’t think it should be doing this… I’ve looped thru D2’s a lot, and they don’t seem to mind… might have a problem with the ports on the LaCie… might exchange it? Or buy a G-Technology product… I’d not hesitate.

Jerry

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[David Roth weiss]

Trevor,

Have you tried disconnecting the deck and rebooting the computer with all the drives plugged in?

DRW

[Walter Biscardi]

[Trevor Ward] “I just bought a 500GB LaCie d2 Big Disk Extreme with FW800. I plug it into the FW800 port on the back of my G5 and my mac won’t recognize my other external hard drives”

Did you reformat the LaCie? You should do this and then restart the Mac. We have about 4 or 5 LaCie FW800 devices connected to our three systems and don’t have issues with any of them.

[Trevor Ward] “I should have stuck to a GRaid. I borrowed a FW800 GRaid and didn’t have this problem. It costs twice as much, though.”

I have returned two of the new G-RAID2’s because they don’t work as well as the older models. Terrible read/write speeds when other Firewire devices are connected.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Trevor Ward]

I tried restarting the computer with different configurations. All plugged in, some plugged in, none plugged in. Some on, all on, none on.

I haven’t tried reformatting the hard drive yet. I put in an email to their customer service. I’ll see what they say. I hate to reformat now because I just transferred about 200GB onto the disk thinking everything was oakily doakily.

thanks for everyone’s quick response.

-trevor ward
http://www.redeyevideoproductions.com
orlando, fl

[Colin Mcquillan]

I had the same problem a while ago, turned out to be a bad firewire cable.
When I would plug in the external, my deck and other external would go offline. after some troubleshooting, traced it back to a short in the DV deck firewire cable.

try swapping out a cable and see if it fixes your trouble. If not,, well,, not sure what the trouble could be.

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver BC

[Colin Mcquillan]

not just the cable for your new drive,, swap around the others aswell,, as with my case,, it was onle of the cables I already had attached, not the new one for the extra drive I was connecting.

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver BC

[Walter Biscardi]

[Trevor Ward] “I haven’t tried reformatting the hard drive yet. I put in an email to their customer service. I’ll see what they say. I hate to reformat now because I just transferred about 200GB onto the disk thinking everything was oakily doakily.”

Number 1 rule with all hard drives. Always reformat the drive when you install it, even if it shows up on the desktop the first time you plug it in. Doesn’t matter what manufacturer it is, always format the drive before the first use.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Daryl K davis]

Funny thing. I just got 2 Lacie 1TB big disk extreme drives yesterday. I reformatted them (extended not journalled), and then proceeded to copy about 1.5 terabytes of media overnight. Woke up this morning and the drives are not mounted on desktop. Try to run Disk Utility and the program won’t even open right away, the wheel just kept on spinning for 10 minutes or so. Finally one of the drives – Drive 02 – mounted. Then the other drive 01 appeared in the Disk Utility window but not on desktop.

When I tried to mount Drive 01 I get message “Mount Failed – The disk

[Chris Borjis]

[Daryl K Davis] “I reformatted them (extended not journalled), and then proceeded to copy about 1.5 terabytes of media overnight.”

They have to be formatted journalled don’t they?

[Daryl K davis]

They are for media only so they shouldn’t have to be jounalled.

Someone correct me if I’m wrong on this but I have worked with over 20 different lacie drives and never formatted media drives with journalling. I’ve never had any serious issues working this way.

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DK Davis / Editor/ Post Super
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