[X4U] Re: X4U Digest, Vol 52, Issue 12

[SCAW Webmaster]

I think Jonathan nailed it. I had the same problem with a 1TB LaCie I
was using for Time Machine. I contacted LaCie, gave them my serial
number and they mailed me a new power supply. Check their website for
details. They didn't even want the old power supply back. (It may be a
known issue.)

Milton van der Veen

> Jonathan,
>  You might have a problem with the power supply.
>  I had a problem with an OWC enclosure used for Time Machine that I just
> could not figure out. The drive mounted but was not accessible. Disk Warrior
> and Disk Utility did not help. I took out the two hard drives and installed
> them in my Mac Pro and they worked just fine. I finally called OWC and the
> tech suggested returning the power supply for a replacement and the new one
> got the enclosure to work again.
> Just a thought.
> Maris
>
>
> On 12/18/08 3:37 PM, "Jonnythan" <jonnythanster at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> I have a 1tb LaCie drive that I've been using for Time Machine on a PPC G5
>> (OS X 10.5.5).
>>
>> Then it went wrong, refusing to mount, and Disk Utility, Drive Genius and
>> Disk Warrior couldn't fix it. With the latter, attempting to fix it caused
>> the system to crash.
>>
>> I tried re-formatting with Disk Utility, but this refused to finish after
>> leaving it running for an hour.
>>
>> So I successfully re-formatted using Drive Genius. But then Time Machine
>> reported the back-up was unsuccessful. So I ran Drive Genius to try and fix
>> the drive, and this caused the system to crash.
>>
>> Now the system crashes if I so much as turn the drive on!
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Jonathan.
>>
>>