[X4U] LaCie Hard drive troubles

[Daly Jessup]

At 2:05 PM -0500 22/2/07, faramineux wrote:
>I have 5 or 6 LaCie Firewire external drives. From 500 to 125gb. 
>They have been OK until one of them is now giving me some grief. 
>Suddenly, out of the blue it won't be accepted: The dreaded message 
>arrives - Do you want to initialize this drive? I called LaCie and 
>they showed me how to repartition the drive: Choose one partition 
>and called the drive by a name I have never used before. It worked 
>for a week. Then same problem. Called LaCie and the tech person told 
>me that I should NOT use the drive in a daisy chain, etc. He says 
>the data must be corrupted but the drive is sound. Needless I no 
>longer trust that drive. What do you make of it? By the way this is 
>a drive that has 800 and 400 Firewire outlets. I use the latest 
>version of Mac OSX.

It's not clear to me that the problem is with the drive itself. Why 
do you conclude that the drive is bad an dnot the enclosure or its 
Firewire bus? Have you tried other disks in that enclosure?

Daly
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