Hi there:
I was having trouble copying data to a hard drive. The drive was a LaCie Porsche external 250 GB. It wouldn't be able to copy files over about 128 kb, and the finder would give me errors of type -36. Peculiarly, copying from the command line worked, though.
I was rather distraught as this hard drive holds my music collection, and I used to be a DJ, so we're talking quite a lot of music that I don't particularly want to replace.
Anyway, I immediately went and bought a new hard drive, because I don't screw around with data loss. I connected the drive, partitioned it, copied my music, and ran a backup. Everything was fine. Then, after a while, the same problems started up again.
Today, though, I switched the cable (I used the same cable because it is the perfect length). And this fixed the problem.
Anyway, the moral of this story is: ALWAYS CHECK THE CHEAPEST COMPONENT FIRST.
$220 later, now I have two external drives. C'est la vie.
I was having trouble copying data to a hard drive. The drive was a LaCie Porsche external 250 GB. It wouldn't be able to copy files over about 128 kb, and the finder would give me errors of type -36. Peculiarly, copying from the command line worked, though.
I was rather distraught as this hard drive holds my music collection, and I used to be a DJ, so we're talking quite a lot of music that I don't particularly want to replace.
Anyway, I immediately went and bought a new hard drive, because I don't screw around with data loss. I connected the drive, partitioned it, copied my music, and ran a backup. Everything was fine. Then, after a while, the same problems started up again.
Today, though, I switched the cable (I used the same cable because it is the perfect length). And this fixed the problem.
Anyway, the moral of this story is: ALWAYS CHECK THE CHEAPEST COMPONENT FIRST.
$220 later, now I have two external drives. C'est la vie.