[X4U] LaCie Hard drive troubles

[Neil]

After reading this thread, it looks like I'm in trouble.  I have a TB  
of data on a LaCie Big Disk RAID that doesn't mount in the Finder  
anymore.  None of the data was backed-up.  It wasn't anything  
critical, but I am disappointed to have lost it.  I had it daisy  
chained to another TB array.  Anyway, I'm going to DealMac now  
looking for a 2TB enclosure so I'll be able to back-up whatever data  
I have left and whatever I'll create in the near future.

On Feb 22, 2007, at 2:24 PM, Wayne Wilkin wrote:

> I went thru the exact same crap with one of Lacie's drives. It was  
> out of warranty, so I was kind of screwed. So since I could not  
> longer depend on the drive I decided to take it apart. worked fine  
> out of the enclosure, came to the conclusion that it must of been  
> something with the Firewire interface inside the drive itself. I  
> purchased a enclosure stuck the drive in it been working ever  
> since, just my 2¢, Wayne.
>
> On Feb 22, 2007, at 2:05 PM, 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. TIA
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