LaCie Porsche drive freezes Finder

[vladco]

Hello

I don't know if anyone can help with this problem. I have an external 500GB hard drive made by Lacie (the minimlistic metal Porsche design) which I use to do a full back up every few months of my internal hard drives.

I noticed yesterday when I plugged it in that it crashed the Finder on my MacPro (early 2008 dual quad core desktop) running 10.5.8. The finder just froze and after Force Quit would not relaunch. I had to restart the machine by pressing and holding the power button. This happened repeatedly, each time after the external drive had been running for 10-15 minutes, so I tried it with my MacBook Pro, also running 10.5.8. Exactly the same thing happened -- the Finder froze and I had to reboot the machine to restart it.

I have checked for new drivers but none seem to be available from LaCie. My copy of Snow Leopard arrived in the post today and I wonder if installing that will help, but maybe I should figure this out before changing the operating system. Any advice would be very gratefully received.

Thanks
Vlad

[Satcomer]

Unplug the drive from your Mac then Reset Your PRAM and after doing that reconnect. This may help and if it doesn't the drive might be toast.