[Lin Brummett]

Thanks guys for all the input. I have been away on other projects but am now back. The drive won’t show up at all in Disk Utility so I can’t move forward there. I think my next step will be to try a data rescue program and if that doesn’t work, toss a coin between voiding a couple warranties and pulling the drives out of the case and mounting it in another case or spending the big bucks with a data recovery service.

Lin

[Lin Brummett]

This is my first experience with this type of drive failure so in answer to Christopher: I haven’t tried any of the disk recovery software since the Mac only sees it as an unknown device. While I know it would benefit me sometime down the road I’m not sure I want to invest in something that I wouldn’t directly benefit from this time around. A friend just recommended Disk Warrior so I now have an inquiry into that manufactuer to see if it might possibly work.

We have three different types of drives in house, GRaid, Big Disk Extreme+ and Big Disk Quadra. Each variety uses a different power supply with the two LaCies having different ends, the GRaid uses the same 4 pin connector as the problem drive but the supply is physically different. All of our Big Disk Extreme+ drives are about the same vintage so I have been using LaCie branded power supplies with the 4 pin connector though I admit to not checking specific voltages. I just made a quick run through the pile and all appear to have the same specs. so I hope things have been kosher there.

Lin Brummett