[Hidden-tech] External Drive ?

[Fred Levine]

Just thought I'd offer this up:

I've had a lot of luck with an Iomega 120 MB external firewire with OS 10.2
and 10.3. It worked right out of the box and I swap it between my power mac
and my wife's power book without any problems. It works so well I just
ordered a 250 MB. Iomega's offering great rebates on these right--the 250 is
only 139 after the rebate.

Fred Levine

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> Hi Mitch,
> 
> Thanks for your email. I was literally about to buy the same drive, and
> now I am thinking twice about it.
> 
> Sadly no solutions from me, but I have heard (or rather read in Mac
> magazines, even last year) that alot of external FireWire drives seem
> to become problematic somehow with the last Mac OSX operating system
> releases. I have been unsure of whether or not to buy an external for
> fear of this problem. Alot of the other problems I have read about
> mentioned total loss of data from the drive, which is unsettling. I was
> hoping the latest OSX releases would help, but from what you say, it
> hasn't. If you do come on a solution, please let me know. I am shopping
> for a drive and want to avoid glitches.
> 
> Thanks, I wish you luck in finding a solution!
> 
> Giannina Silverman
> 
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> 
> On Jun 1, 2005, at 10:31 PM, Mitch Anthony wrote:
> 
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>> 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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