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 Sat 14 Aug 2004, 19:43
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I've got a LaCie FW400 80G external drive. I use OS9.2 on the ibook and OSX 3.4 on my emac and my DSL Freebox keeps me on the internet (and provides free phoning to national numbers and 3 cents/min to New Zealand. Do you get that too? I'm in France - oops off topic).
I downloaded the LaCie Update Tool (OSX) and ran it with the FW400 drive on and loaded. The tool said I didn't need an update so I didn't get one.
I unloaded the FW drive before closing the update app and immediately got a "Fatal" message concerning the drive.
Oops! I thought I'd buggered it.
I switched the drive off and on again. There it was again with everything in. Oof!
I decided to do it all again but this time following the LaCie instructions to the letter (almost). I unplugged everything other than the FW drive and ethernet, and tried to run the update app.
Damn! The keyboard and mouse didn't answer now. Oh yes, I had unplugged them. Oof!
Then I wrote all this in here and was just going to click on 'add reply' when a pop up add came on screen. I closed the window. Oops! It wasn't a pop up so I'd lost my reply to you.
Still, my soft disk memory had retained the jist so I've now retyped it.
I'd unplugged ethernet so no ads would replace my reply screen, but I clicked on Add Reply before plugging in again. The button went grey so I plugged in but it stayed grey. I thus clicked on the http thing up the top thinking it would send of the reply but it just went to the forums list. Oops, I'd lost the reply again.
No, this time I'd copied it. Ooof!
Conclusion: my brain, heart and FW drive are still intact and I'm finally getting this reply off.
Still, I have a sneaky feeling I should update, and brave the unknown.
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 articles Panther's FireWire Data Loss Problem. Mon 5 Apr 2004, 10:58 keepsound It's a fake, I never had problem with mi Fw hds. C... Mon 5 Apr 2004, 10:58 Hawkins I've had a problem. When I started using Panth... Mon 5 Apr 2004, 13:11 Music for Fleas I've had no problems - 3 drives through a powe... Mon 5 Apr 2004, 15:23 snow My system includes two EZQuest Cobra 120GB Firewir... Mon 5 Apr 2004, 19:01 guest_pb12sh I was under the impression only FW800 drives using... Mon 5 Apr 2004, 19:02 PristineRec It's actually not possible for FW800 to work w... Mon 5 Apr 2004, 19:10 jnasato For me, Panther unmounts and handles my FireWire d... Mon 5 Apr 2004, 21:47 guest_nuskyn Buy good stuff, and it will never fail............... Sat 10 Apr 2004, 19:51 jnasato .....Though a few days ago I hooked up a bus-power... Sat 10 Apr 2004, 23:42 snow i have heard of many FW800 LaCie hard drives faili... Mon 12 Apr 2004, 21:18 guest_invol8 I had this problem on one of my machines. Just sur... Mon 10 May 2004, 20:28 lepetitmartien It's real, and it's a problem if you use F... Wed 12 May 2004, 17:47 adriancom I am using the LaCie BigDrive (500 GB) wih FW 800 ... Fri 4 Jun 2004, 19:11 Scott Hi, I got munched by panther too, but now I don... Wed 23 Jun 2004, 02:44 snow hey scott
i understand you concern about retrustin... Wed 23 Jun 2004, 20:08 glenzo Since updating to Panther in July I have had the f... Tue 5 Oct 2004, 13:25 glenzo Add to that list a Rocstor 250 and a Buslink 120 F... Wed 6 Oct 2004, 01:17 lepetitmartien I've had last week the "familiar" dr... Wed 6 Oct 2004, 04:11 keepsound Internal HD settings in FW cases:
Be shure to set ... Sun 6 Feb 2005, 05:14 lepetitmartien Thanks keepsound but my drives are in proper order... Sun 6 Feb 2005, 05:54
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