[CUBE] Firewire problems

[Erik Ableson]

On thing to check for is whether it was dismounted properly.  If it 
wasn't then you will be waiting on the system to do it's file system 
check 'fsck' to verify that the drive is in good shape.  Once you've 
turned the drive on, check try typing top -u in the terminal and see if 
there's a process called fsck running. If there is, then let it run 
it's course and see what happens.

Failing that, it may be time to get an RMA.  I had an external Maxtor 
40 that had similar problems where it would work some of the time and 
not others with no rhyme nor reason to the pattern.  Finally gave up 
and had them replace it.

Cheers,

Erik

On Monday, January 20, 2003, at 07:30 AM, Francois Barbary wrote:

> i have a fw hd it's a 60 gb maxtor 5600 rpm (ithink) it a very quite 
> model. just 1 year old.
> but the problem isn't really the drive... when i flick my switch to 
> turn the drive on it doesn't ... at least not right away like it used 
> to (even a 5 second wait is normal) but now itls minutes. sometimes up 
> to 10!  once it spins up and tries to mount (i hear r/w noise) it 
> momentarily spins down then back up! and then tries again (same 
> pattern of r/w noise) sometimes succeeding, sometimes not. when it 
> does mount it's only usable for about 10 mins. then it spontaneously 
> spins down and back up again but this time it's unmountable. it won't 
> even recognize that its on (lookin in terminal)