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
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 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).
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
