I have had this for about a few months with no previous problems. All of a sudden it decides it does not want to mount on any of my machines.
I normally have it attached to my PB running 10.4.3 on FW800. I attached it to another laptop running XP under FW400 and it refused to mount - it would not even show under Disk Management. I tried again on my iBook - no go. Tried USB, same result. Went back to my PB under FW800 - still will not mount. I cannot detect anything under Disk Utility or System Profiler.
On starting up, the disk spins and makes the usual noises and the blue light goes on and remains steady, so I am not sure whether the LaCie controllers have gone, whether the controller on the hard disk is toast or if the power brick is underperforming. I have heard that the latter is often responsible for giving the impression that something is broken because it only just gives enough juice to power the LaCie.
It is still under warranty, but I want to try everything first before taking it back as I have plenty of business info (mine and third party) backed up on this that I need and would not like bandy about to all and sundry. I understand that if it goes back to LaCie then all the info is guaranteed to be lost.
What are your thoughts?
I normally have it attached to my PB running 10.4.3 on FW800. I attached it to another laptop running XP under FW400 and it refused to mount - it would not even show under Disk Management. I tried again on my iBook - no go. Tried USB, same result. Went back to my PB under FW800 - still will not mount. I cannot detect anything under Disk Utility or System Profiler.
On starting up, the disk spins and makes the usual noises and the blue light goes on and remains steady, so I am not sure whether the LaCie controllers have gone, whether the controller on the hard disk is toast or if the power brick is underperforming. I have heard that the latter is often responsible for giving the impression that something is broken because it only just gives enough juice to power the LaCie.
It is still under warranty, but I want to try everything first before taking it back as I have plenty of business info (mine and third party) backed up on this that I need and would not like bandy about to all and sundry. I understand that if it goes back to LaCie then all the info is guaranteed to be lost.
What are your thoughts?