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I have a 3 year old Lacie 250 GB drive hooked to my wife's iMac. I rarely used this drive so I thought it would be put to good use with TM. I have been using it with TM for several months with no issues. It has two FW400 and one USB port. I use one of the FW400 for the hook-up.
Recently I noticed it was not backing up and it is no longer detected. I moved the drive to two different computers and tried both FW and USB ports. Whenever I connect it to a computer it turns on and I hear the drive spin up, but it is never detected. Since it is not detected, I cannot run the disk utility. I am assuming drive failure but I am a little surprised as I never hardly use this drive. Anything else I should try before junking it and buying another drive? Now that I got a job, I can buy more Apple products! |
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You can try to take the drive out of the enclosure and put it in a PC. That way you can at least get data from it, if the drive is still intact.
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Its possible that the FW interface has failed, or that the cable has gone bad. Have you tried connecting via USB? If its just a case of the interface failing, just go to a local PC shop and pickup a new FW enclosure.
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Which version of Mac OS X is being used?
Does the drive have the latest LaCie drive update installed? With the drive spinning up is sounds a lot like what is in the post above. I have newer external drives which display this from time to time and for me it is a system based issue. |
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"diskutil" is a program that you can run from the command line. Try this:
1. open terminal.app (/Applications/Utilities) 2. type "diskutil list" 3. look for the name of you FW disk in the "identifier" coulmn. It should looke something like "disk0s3" 4. type "diskutil mount <device name>" (where <device name> = the name of your disk from the identifier) 5. This should mount the drive. I would then try to repair it with either the command line diskutil or the GUI one in the Utilities folder. **note: if you type "diskutil ?" into the command line then you will get a short list of the options available with this tool. |
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This disk did not show up on the list. Now what?
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I've had this several times with Lacie drives. It's the power failing. I don't buy Lacie drives any more as a result of this. A replacement power lead will do the trick and can be acquired from Lacie.
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I do not think this is the problem as the blue light does come on and the drive spin. Or am I wrong?
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