Daisy chaining two Lacie Firewire 800 drives on a G%

I've had one external drive working perfectly for months. Tried to daisy chain a second drive and can't get the second drive to register on my desktop. Support said to reboot. My system freezes upon shutting down. If I restart with the two connected, neither drives shows and my Eye TV shuts down. As soon as I disconnect the second drive, Eye TV works and the one drive appears. Any suggestions? Apple Care had none except purchasing a port that would handle firewire 800. How trustworthy would that be?

I've tried daisychaining a new d2 Big Disk Extreme FW800 and a d2 FW800 drive on my G5's FW 800 bus. I can't copy files from one drive to the other without an Error -36 code. I CAN copy to and from the drives to the Mac at nice fast speeds with no errors. Both LaCie drives are updated to their latest firmware, respectively.
The few times that I was able to copy a small folder from the d2 to the Big Disk, it took forever.
As a result of this thread, I'm now awaiting the delivery of a Belkin FW800 3 port hub. I hope this will clear up this issue, as I need to be able to move data between the two drives (both of which passed their tests via Disk Utility, Drive Genius, and DiskWarrior in flying colors).
I have noticed the older d2 FW800 has a lower firmware number than the Big Disk, however, the LaCie Update Tool reports that each drive is at its current appropriate firmware number. And yes, I ran the Update Tool independently on each drive, while the other was unmounted and unplugged.
Any advice?

Similar Messages

  • When I plug in my Lacie Firewire 800 drive it causes certain apps to crash. Chrome will immediately crash when I open it, so will DVD player. It's only when I plug in my Firewire 800 drive, USB does not cause issues. What's the deal?

    When I plug in my Lacie Firewire 800 drive into my Mid-2009 Macbook Pro running Mountain Lion - 10.8.2,  it causes certain apps to crash. Chrome will immediately crash when I open it, so will DVD player. It's only when I plug in my Firewire 800 drive, USB does not cause issues. What's the deal?
    I've restarted, verfied the disk, repaired permissions, smc reset.. don't know what else to do..

    Contact Lacie since it's their product you are having issues with. 

  • Daisy chain two La Cie hard drives through time capsule usb

    my time capsule runs oNe la cie 350GB through the usb great
    can i daisy chain (firewire a 1 TB d2 la cie through the 350) and still see both and access from network in finder???

    can i daisy chain (firewire a 1 TB d2 la cie through the 350) and still see both and access from network in finder???
    Sorry, but I really don't think this is something that the TC's USB port & File Sharing function would be able to support.
    Have you tried this combination connected directly to your computer? ... and did it work?

  • Is it advised "Daisy Chain" my two LaCie external hard drives

    Is it recommended to Daisy Chain my two LaCie external hard drives to my iMac?
    Is there any "real" advantage to doing this?
    If it is advised; how do I connect?
    I am running an      iMac OS X Version 10.9.4
                                   Processor      3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
                                   Memory         12 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
    Hard Discs              LaCie d2 Quadra 2TB     FireWire 800
                                                                             FireWire 400
                                                                             eSata
                                                                             USB 2.0
    and                        LaCie d2 Quadra 3TB       USB3 
                                                                             eSata
                                                                             2x FireWire 800
                                                                             USB 2.0

    The only advantage is to free up a port on the compute.
    In your case the two drives only have Firewire 800 and eSATA in common. You don't have an eSATA port on your iMac so you could only daisy-chain via Firewire. If you did that then the drive that supports USB3 would run at a slower speed. The way you have it set up now one of them is able to operate at the very fast USB 3.0 speed. On the other hand if neither of these drives needs to run particularly fast then if you daisy-chain them via Firewire 800 that would free up the USB 3.0 port should you need it.

  • HT5299 Can 2 daisy-chained firewire-800 drives be connected to 1 Thunderbolt-to-Firewire adapter?

    Can 2 daisy-chained firewire-800 drives be connected to 1 Thunderbolt-to-Firewire adapter?

    Nightwatch (NL) wrote:
    Thanks Steve!
    One more question: Stayed throughput speeds more or less the same as original Firewire (since all my movies are on external disks) or has it become significantly slower?
    I haven't done a careful side by side quantitative comparison of what I had on the older Macbook Pro (which had three Firewire800 disks chained together via FW800) versus the new Macbook Pro (which has thunderbolt into which I have connected three FW800 drives daisy chained via the adaptor), mainly because my employer supplied me with these computers and required I turn in the old one when they replenished it with the new one. However, I can say this -- one of the FW800 externals is used for Time Machine, another for making entire disk clones, and the third is for misc storage. I have seen Time Machine start up during a disk clone (with SuperDuper) and there seems to be no impact. The disk cloning is generally pretty intensive on disk and cpu resources, but thunderbolt seems to have a much bigger capacity for throughput than firewire and hence can apparently accommodate multiple streams of FW800 data going back and forth with no apparent impact on each other. The main limit seems to be the FW800 speed itself, not thunderbolt. I see ~ 60 MB/s or more which is as much as I have ever seen on FW800. Ultimately, the ideal setup will be thunderbolt drives daisy chained together, I would expect hundreds of MB/s, but I don't see many of these thunderbolt drives on the market yet. Even better would be solid state drives ...

  • Lacie firewire 800 and powerbook

    I am having trouble tranferring Final Cut Express and iMovie files over to my LaCie firewire 800 250GB Extreme. I get an error -50. Any idea what is wrong? It seems to only be those files.
    thanks

    David, yep that's the exact drive I was looking at!
    So you chain two of 'em together with FW 800?
    "Uses the ExpressCard/34 flash card slot for ingesting."
    I presume you mean the new SxS cards go in the ExpressCard slot? I was aware that was the case, which is cool!
    Will that FW800 connection be quick enough to edit from? It is with my current DV workflow, but with HD content?

  • Can't daisy chain Thunderbolt 1 and 2 drives

    I have a Mac Mini server (mid 2011) with a Pegasus R4 connected via Thunderbolt that has been running fine. The Mini is running Lion Server.
    Just recently I got a Lacie 2big drive with Thunderbolt 2. I assumed that TB2 was backwards compatible so daisy chaining the Lacie to the Pegasus wouldn't be an issue. But when I do so, the Lacie doesn't mount and Disk Utility cannot see it.
    However, if I connect the Lacie directly to the Mini it mounts and works fine. So then I tried connecting the Pegasus to the Lacie. But now the Pegasus doesn't mount and can't be seen by Disk Utility or Promise Utility.
    So, is the problem trying to daisy chain TB1 and TB2 devices together? Or is it the Mini? Or is it Lion?
    Any help will be appreciated.

    Thanks for the quick reply. The Pegasus is over 3 years old and I have never updated the firmware. I will do so.
    However, I got everything to work. The one I thing I didn't try was rebooting with both drives daisy chained and turned on. This did it. I restarted many times but each time was with only one of the drives connected. Not sure why a reboot is necessary for the daisy chained device to be visible.

  • Confused! LaCie FireWire 800 PC Card

    Greetings!
    I purchased an Iomega 250 GB external hard drive. Because my notebook doesn't have an 800 Mbps port I also purchased a LaCie FireWire 800 PC card. I was aleady to hook all of this up today, when I discovered that the LaCie card has 2 FireWire 800 bilingual ports compatible with FireWire 400/1394a products. It also has 1 FireWire 400 6-pin port. The Iomega ext. hard drive has 2 FireWire 800 (1394b) ports and 1 FireWire 400 port and a USB 2.0 port.
    Does a "bilingual" port on the LaCie mean that both a 1394a and a 1394b cable will work in the same port? If not, then how do you get the LaCie FireWire 800 PC card to work at 800Mbps?
    Thank you in advance!!!
    tenntooter (back again after a long time out of town.)

    The information provided was helpful. I purchased the iomega external hard drive and an Lacie card, but I haven't been able to get these working properly. I only worked on this for a short time though, and I now have time to work on this some more. I'm sure that I've overlooked something. I'll get it to work I'm certain.
    Thank you!

  • Computer crash with iTunes - Using external firewire 800 drive

    I am using an external firewire 800 drive (2TB Lacie) to store all my music for iTunes... At random times this crashes the computer, the music "skips" and the computer has a grey notice telling me to shutdown immediately. I am not sure why this is happening, but think this must be some sort of conflict issue... but no clue how to resolve... Any advice would be great!! Thanks!

    Oh no, sounds like kernel panics. Time to head directly to The X Lab to read the FAQs and get started with maintenance and troubleshooting. Unfortunately, this problem goes way beyond iTunes, so for additional support, you should post in the appropriate OS X forum.

  • Logic Studio - Presonus Firepod w/ Firewire 800 Drive (Firewire Issues?)

    Hi all,
    Having a problem on this end. I had picked up a Lacie 160gig bus-powered external HD. I had wanted to run this over Firewire 800, but it's not working.
    Whenever I open the HD, my audio cuts out and remains cut until I reboot the system. The Firepod is running off Firewire 400, still get a connection (blue light), but no sound.
    The problem only exhibits itself when I open up the HD.
    Anyone else having issues running an external audio interface via Firewire 400 and an external Firewire 800 drive?
    Thanks,
    -B

    Have a FW400 Focusrite Saffire Pro and a WD HD on the FW800. They wont work together on the built-in FW400 and FW800 ports of the MBP. Had to get a FW400 Expresscard and put the Saffire on that and the HD on the built-in FW800 port to get them to work together. Also please notice how professional using a lot of capital letter acronyms makes me seem.

  • Iomega eGo 2TB USB/Firewire 800 drive not working with Time Machine.

    The drive I had for Time Machine died and I replaced it with an iomega eGo 2 TB USB/Firewire 800 drive. Time Machine finds it and backs up the disk when I first boot up but then it seems like the drive goes off line. At that point, when Time Machine tires to back up it can't get the drive to respond and my system hangs. To fix that, I turn off the iomega that fixes the hang up and I get the disconnect without ejecting warning.
    I ran disk utility and disk warrior. Both apps reported the disk is fine.
    Can any tell me what's up? I'm running OS X 10.7.2
    Thanks.

    I am having this exact same error with my new iMac 21.5" connected to a brand new Iomega eGo 2 TB Desktop Firewire 800 External Hard Drive (Mac Edition - 34796).
    The TimeMachine backup works fine, but as soon as the iMac goes to sleep and wakes back up, TimeMachine doesn't respond well to any commands and all sorts of errors appear on the screen.
    I will try the tip here from Kappy and report back later if this works for me.
    Kappy, one thing to note is that I'm using the Firewire connection from the iMac to the eGo and experiencing this problem.  The eGo has its own power supply too.

  • Can I daisy chain two Thunderbolt displays to the new MacBook Airs (July 2011)?

    I have last year's MacBook Air -- probably the best Mac I've ever had and I've had a few. I looked at using multiple displays last year, but the reviews for the major 3rd-party solutions really demonstrate how little is possible.
    I see Apple says you can double up on displays for the MacBook Pro (I have a pre-Thunderbolt one unfortunately), what about the new (July 2011) MacBook Airs?
    Anyone tried? Anyone know?
    (I have a 30" Dell display, but it is, and always has been, very flakey when it comes to connecting to a Mac laptop).

    You can thank Intel for that.
    The sandy bridge chips all have integrated graphics, and before they were released -- they took nvidia to court claiming they didn't have a "license" to make GPU chipsets for the sandy bridge line.  Intel won, and consumers lost.
    The solution most manufacturers are using for notebooks is graphics switching (nvidia optimus like technology) -- which basically uses a discreet GPU along side the intel integrated GPU, and switches between the two instantaenously based on the workload and \ or battery life -- this is how the macbook pro's with the ATI gpus work.
    Since there isn't enough space physically inside a macbook air for a discreet GPU, and since no company in the world is allowed to make a shared GPU for intel's sandy bridge chipsets -- the only solution is to use the integrated graphics that is in the processors -- Intel HD 3000.  Intel basically has the monopoly here...there is no legal solution in the world another company can provide thanks to our wonderful court system
    Wanna know the really sad part about the Intel HD 3000 GPU?  The Nvidia 320M (the GPU used in the previous model 2010 macbook air -- chip was released to the market in April of last year) actually out performs it in some benchmarks -- that's right, a 1+ year old shared gpu from nvidia outperforms Intel's 2011 integrated graphics.
    Intel ***** at graphics, period.
    The only other solution I can think of is for you to get the "Echo Express" product from Sonnet:
    http://www.sonnettech.com/product/thunderbolt/index.html
    It's basically an external bay that will allow you to put a PCIe GPU inside it, and it would then connect via thunderbolt to the macbook air.
    You would then use the minidisplayport connectors on the PCIe GPU to connect to the apple displays -- I believe any modern ATI or Nvidia GPU can support up to 3 or 4 external displays.
    Unfortunately, sonnet's bay is not released yet, and you'd also have to make sure the PCIe GPU you get supports both thunderbolt AND os x....so yeah, kind of slim pickens right now
    EDIT:
    So apparently the macbook pros can daisy chain two thunderbolt displays -- Apple has a picture of it on their site:
    http://storeimages.apple.com/1867/as-images.apple.com/is/image/AppleInc/MC914_AV 7?wid=1200&hei=1200&fmt=jpeg&qlt=95&op_sharpen=0&resMode=bicub&op_usm=0.5,0.5,0, 0&iccEmbed=0&layer=comp
    I just bought a new mac air too...I was gonna get a mbpro but they are just too expensive -- the one I configured was at around 3000$
    Wanna know what's lame about using the thunderbolt display with the mac air?  So the new mac air has the magsafe connector on one side and the thunderbolt connector on the other -- they're not on the same side like the macbook pro is (see picture) -- so basically the cable is going to have to slack around the back of the macbook air -- who designed that?  Must have been smoking some good meth ;p
    Message was edited by: NiqueXyZ

  • Lion very slow starting apps with Firewire 800 drive mounted. Any ideas?

    Lion very slow starting apps with Firewire 800 drive mounted.
    When my Firewire 800 drive is in sleep mode, when I start up an app like MS Excel or Addressbook. I get a spining wheel and a delay before the app launches. Any ideas? Never happened in 10.6.

    Long shot: What format is the drive?
    Regards
    TD

  • Recommendable external portable Firewire 800 drives?

    Anybody have any recommendations for Firewire 800 portable hard drives to use for extra storage with a MBP (with cost and capacity)?
    Thanks!
    doug

    Hi
    I've just purchased a Western Digital Mybook Pro 500 gig. It only cost me £180 and Its works excellently with large DV files and heavy graphics. File transfer rate is rapid using Firewire 800! They even have a 1TB model that's RAID 1/0 capable. Check out:
    http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=270
    For the 1TB version
    http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=242
    For the 500 gig version
    http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=322613&cks=***&assoc=8070E5CC-28EB-433D-8 345-6176BFE08D72
    For the cheapest place to purchase the 500 gig
    Also just type 'Cheap external Firewire 800 drive' into google and you'll get a heap of prices from places like 'price grabber' and 'compare prices'
    Hope its useful

  • Editing Canon 5D to ProRes on an iMac and firewire 800 drive

    The Canon 5D footage that has been sent through Compressor to ProRes will not play with any smoothness in FCP 6. I'm wondering if it's because of the Drobo firewire 800 drive? I'm working in a local company's setup and I'm thinking they should be using more than a firewire drive. This iMac is not capable of eSata connection or higher. Any ideas what other cause there could be for the footage playing slowly or freezing all together in the timeline? Thanks.
    This is a 2.66 intel core duo iMac with 10.5.8 4GB Ram

    When you say, "small portable raids", do you mean like a CalDigitVR or a G-Raid mini or G-Speed?
    If you want a drive you can drag around with you, I can't recommend the Caldigit VR Mini highly enough. It is really solidly built and is powered from either the FW bus or an external supply. I used one recently to capture 14 hours of DVCProHD live over 2 days (direct feed from an HVX-200 to FCP on a MBP with the drive powered via firewire) without a hiccup. VERY impressive.
    My only quibble with it is there is no independent power switch. When you plug it in (fw or external power), it starts up. Other than that, no issues. The Caldigit RAID software allows for a variety of configurations.
    x

Maybe you are looking for