[Hidden-tech] External Drive ?

[Will Loving]

Mark,

There is an extended discussion on Macintouch.com (the best site for mac
power users) on external FW drive failures. One of the first tests is to
take the same drive and attach it to another Mac running Panther, not Tiger.
Secondly, attach it to a Mac running OS 9. In some cases, FW drives which
have become unusable on OS X are perfectly fine under OS 9.

Second, there is a large file corruption issue with Spotlight¹s background
indexing. Though this may not affect you since most of your files are not in
the GB size range where this problem is most evident, try turning Spotlight
off for the time being.

Will Loving


on 6/1/05 10:31 PM, Mitch Anthony at mitch at element22.com wrote:

> 
> Dear tethered and wired colleagues-
> 
> I am an avid collector of music (first vinyl, then CD, now AIFF and MP3).
> 
> 2 months ago I purchased a La Cie 500 meg external hard drive to store the
> incoming digital downloads.
> 
> (I'm running Mac OS 10.4.1)
> 
> Two months of bliss.  Plenty of room.  Easily integrated with the OS...plug
> and play to AirTunes on my stereo...
> 
> Then the honeymoon period ended.
> 
> First sign of trouble:  the external is not seen in the finder of my Mac. 
> Meaning, of course, that I cannot save to this disc any longer.
> 
> Second sign of trouble:  after saving to my onboard (Mac Powerbook 15) drive,
> I cannot copy to the external LaCie.
> 
> Third sign of trouble: now, whenever I attempt to open a folder within the
> external (rock and pop - for example - which has more than 1500 folders albums
> in it) I'm faced with the pinwheel of death...
> 
> How did such a good drive go so bad so quickly?  
> 
> Mitch Anthony
> 
> P.S.  The upgrade to Tiger appears to be coincidental:  I noticed the problem
> (no drive showing up on desktop) while still using Panther and thought:
> "Sure.  I'll install a new OS and that little problem will vaporize."  Nope. 
> It got worse....
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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