[MacDV] Re: LaCie Big Disk 500gb 7200RPM Firewire 800

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> At 5:49 AM -0700 7/4/04, Macintosh Digital Video List wrote:
>> Does this drive have any kind of reputation yet?
>> Thanks,
>> PJ
> 
> Well, I've just yesterday received one and tried to use the included
> Silverliner software to partition it.   This 24 hour process failed
> after 10 minutes and the disk is now "unreadable by this macintosh."
> I imagine it can be resurrected by reformatting but not a good start.
> It worked perfectly out of the box and was formatted ideally for  OS
> X and without partitions.
> (I am using G4 with OS 9.2.2  and 512Mb RAM.)
I just got one several days ago. I'm on a G5, OS10.2.7 and used Disk
Utility. Absolutely no problems whatsoever.  Hope you can get yours working.