In my case the drives were all seagates, 160 g or more; I think that the issue was heat, since I left them on all night. Seagate drives seem to heat up more than others; I don't think this happened with Western Digital drives under the same conditons. '
--- In [email protected], Paal T Nygaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > We bought 2 Maxtor Onetouch 200 Gb. > First one broke, the fw-controller in it burned. > Got a new one, same happened after two weeks. > Had to keep on working this time, so I took out the disk from the Maxtor > FW-case, mounted the disk inside PC like an ordinary HD. Worked well. > > Now only one out of three Maxtor Onetouch still works, this is a revised > model, but still I´m too scared to use it as a FW disk. Always use the USB > 2.0 connection instead, hoping that this will keep it from burning. > > I wonder if I should conclude that external disks is a bad idea? > > Cheers, > > Paal > > > > > > > > > At 10:22 PM 12/9/2005, you wrote: > >I notice that several people comment on the use of usb external > >drives. I have used them for some time, but three > >recently-purchased seagate drives became corrupted resulting in lost > >files. Seagate offers no help, claiming no support for this > >configuration. > > > >Perhaps this is why they gave significant rebates on all three of > >these drives!! > > > > > >Has anyone else had any problems like this? > > > >randall martin > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/I258zB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/ADr1lB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
