I did check the cables when it happened a few days ago and reseated them. Happened again last night... Reformatted and starting a fresh time machine backup again.
I do have another drive chained off the FW800 port of the mini stack. Wonder if that is a factor in this particular instance. Sent from my iPad http://www.kevincallahan.org On Apr 24, 2013, at 11:07 AM, Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> wrote: > FWIW, in my case things were going wonky with my external drives because the > damn cables never stay seated properly in the sockets on the back of my iMac. > Just adjusting the tilt of the screen is enough to give me a bunch of popups > saying not to remove drives by unplugging them! The drives can also go > silently unresponsive at times (or get hopelessly hosed, especially with > TimeMachine) for the same reason. Got so tired of losing data and doing fsck > that I actually glued the cables in with silicone rubber! Extreme, but it > seems to be doing much better. Sad that none of the modern connectors > (Thunderbolt, FW, USB, etc) have any latches or other ways of really holding > themselves in the sockets. I guess they all assume a completely static > environment where nothing moves or gets bumped. > > > On Apr 23, 2013, at 6:52 PM, Kevin Callahan 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 >
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