Hi list members I have been working at a place where they are having a lot of aggro with firewire external drives hooked to Blue G3s and early G4s (Graphite), etc.
A firewire disk may be in use for some months or even years until one day it fails to mount. The unsuspecting operator then tries a pocket drive or or another drive to see if that will mount and finds that it won't. The first time this happened it was realised after a while that something had gone wrong with the firewire connection within the Mac and that every firewire drive it come in contact with was being damaged - blowing the circuitry within the external drive. This problem has slowly crept through several of the machines to the point where most are fitted with PCI firewire cards and the onboard firewire ports are taped over to stop anyone accidentally plugging in a device. The IT guy is now considering fitting PCI cards to all the Macs as a safety measure. In the meantime this has problem has written off several externals and pocket drives, with only the hard disks being salvaged from the internals and swapped into another working external in order to salvage the data. Fortunately some of the pocket drives still have a working USB connection as well, so the data has been salvaged that way. One is being done this way tonight - 12 hours to transfer 40GB! This is quite a worry as these externals store huge amounts of work and ieven if the data can be salvaged the down-time is a nuisance. Has anyone on the list encountered this kind of problem and if so can they shed any light as to what is happening? TIA Nick -- Mac UK is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac UK list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-uk.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-uk%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
