on 2/16/04 10:42 AM, David R. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greg, > > Just a side thought just in case you or somebody else using external drives > doesn't know, but is it possible that the drive is being removed w/o > ejecting first? Just like with the old scsi drives, even firewire drives > need to have their heads parked before shutting off. This can also happen > if the computer was forced to restart from a freeze at some point. Then if > the drive is jostled even a little, the damage can be done. I'm sure you > already know this but figured I'd mention it just in case and for others > benefit because plug-n-play is a misnomer without the ejecting first. > Anyway, that can corrupt the directory or lead to media errors on a portable > drive real easy. Only has to happen once and a drive sometimes never seems > the same.
Excellent tips Dave - and I have followed those rules. Upon hookup, I plug the power in on the FW drive (and make sure it's turned off), hook up the FW cable, then turn on the drive. Upon disconnect, I eject the FW drive from the desktop (command-E), turn the drive off, and then disconnect the FW cable. > > Also make sure the drive wasn't being formatted using HFS (as opposed to > HFS+) under the older OS Setup Utility. Unlikely but another thought. > > Dave The drive was formatted HFS+ originally, and I made sure that I selected HFS+ when attempting to reformat. So, here is an update: I was mistaken on the Panther issue. One of the techs told me Panther was installed at the school, but was wrong ... all the computers have OS 10.2.8, so that's not the problem after all. I took my FW drive in a third time (after it came up with the "damaged info" message at home yet again), but this time the drive would not even mount there. Then I decided to try the USB interface ... voila, the drive could be seen, but then this is now the same problem that I've been experiencing at home. At this point, I'm suspecting the FW bridge (yet again). This OWC Mercury Elite is the >THIRD< drive in just over a year ... I had to send two back because of faulty FW bridges. The tech person told me if this happened again, I'd be out of luck for warranty replacement. I don't know if they can legally do that, but it's not worth the time and shipping charges I've incurred to deal with this anymore. At this point, I'll just use the drive's USB2 capabilities (now that I have OSX working on my S900 - see follow up post) and pick up another FW drive locally. If I can ever get the FW to mount again, I will attempt to re-flash the Oxford firmware with OWC's update and see if that fixes the problem. Any other ideas? -- Gregg -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
