On Apr 23, 2013, at 7:03 PM, Robert Morse <[email protected]> wrote: > I had the same problem with a Seagate external drive, could read it, but > writing to it would fail. Even tried SpinRite on it, let it read the whole > drive, no problems. Formatted the drive copied everything back to it, from a > backup. (This was not a time-machine vault). Everything copied but a couple > of days latter it failed again. Ran the Seagate utilities on it and it > reported a bad drive. Have not yet seen about sending it in, right now it is > being used as a "Offsite backup". Not sure what I will end up doing with the > drive. > > (it was a real pain as it was a 3TB FW800 Drive, and at least locally I > cannot get those anymore. But, as the controller pops off, I bought a USB3 > one, swapped controllers, and now have my extra backup working.) > > Robert This has happened on 3 of my machines: MBPro 17, MacPro (dual quad), iMac 27 - and with drives from Seagate, G-Drive, and now Mini Stack. It's happened on basically what are fairly new drives (just months old). K > > On Apr 23, 2013, at 9:52 PM, Kevin Callahan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This has happened on a couple of Seagate drives on various machines of mine >> (MBPro, DUAL QUAD) .. and more recently, on my iMac 27 with a brand new 3T >> Mini Stack. >> (3rd time in less than 3 months). >> >> <PastedGraphic-1.png> >> >> In fact, it happened 3 days ago. I reformatted, created a brand new backup. >> Now tonight, once again. >> >> Clues as to what causes this? >> >> K >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
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