Is it true? Is my LaCie dead?

Fine time for a LaCie external 500GB (2 FW 800, 1 FW 400, 1 USB 2.0) ports to be potentially dead. I am thankful we've gotten so much use of it, so please don't tell me so. I have two externals (LaCie 500GB, and a LaCie 1 TB) mounted to the desktop.
Here's the deal:
Exporting an 83 minute project from Final Cut Pro to Compressor as an MP2/AIFF 2pass 90 minute High Quality Encode.
I left to work, and came back to see that FCP had stopped responding in the middle of the export.
I shut down, because I've had overheating problems in the past. My Mac rested for a couple hours, and I rebooted. I started another export, this time (because we're in a time crunch for our Tribeca deadline TODAY!!!!) as a single pass VBR MP2/AIFF compression. Everything was fine, and about 23% into the video compression (compressor starts with audio) FCP failed again (not responding). So I Force Quit, thinking maybe the FCP project files were corrupt. I copied the file, renamed it, and copied it to my desktop. Now the file won't even reopen. Final Cut will open cleanly when I just open the icon on my dock, so it's a booting issue, right? Something with a corrup file or the (eek) Hard Drive.
I've tried everything. I shut down, restarted, switched off my power supply for an hour, unplugged my FW jacks, switched FW cables, ran updates, permission repairs, and then rebooted.
So then, I switched the LaCie 500GB to USB from FW 400. All of a sudden it started making strange repeated clicking sounds like it's trying to fire the spin up. (the same clicking sound it makes when your computer powers off, and the drives power off). But the drive refuses to mount upon restart.
After running a security update, I rebooted again. This time, I got a warning message I've never seen "Unable to recognize external hardware" and I clicked on the option to initialize. Now it won't mount to the desktop at all, (and Disk Utility recognizes it as "External LaCie SA" w/ 0KB). It's still plugged in, and every three minutes it tries to spin up, but only makes those clicking sounds (three in a row).
I just need to confirm if it is, in fact dead, and what to do from here, seeing as we've been working on a tight budget and haven't backed up our drives and we have two festival submission deadlines TODAY. I keep telling myself everything happens for a reason. Otherwise, there's only dismay.

Clicking sounds ... probably dead meat.
To prevent this, you may want to try hardware RAID 1 to protect your data. (if you think it is important to you), you will lose half of capacity, but in return you always have a backup (real time).
CalDigit's FireWire RAID and eSATA RAID are highly recommended by videographers and photographers. All their products are compatible with Mac Pro, this is another advantage over any other firewire or esata companies.
check out the online reviews
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Posted Date : 2005-07-28 19:55:50.0Good Luck!
Sincerely:
(T)
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see attachments
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Linc
Re 1):
Thanks, meant to attach this in the OP.
Best I can do without exposing too much:
had to delete the "To:" field on this one as it had my info in it, but here's another one:
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- Started from OSX disk to re-install os but it could find no disk to install to
- Opened Disk utility and it found the hard drive, but whe I repair or verify I get a "Verify volume failed with error. Could not unmount disk" error
- I've tried to boot with Disk genius to use the tools there. It boots and can run tests but it takes forever (had to let it run all night to attempt a repair) and ultimately has no effect
- I booted up using Disk Warrior. I get to the "starting services" screen and then it goes to a bue screen with spinning wheel and then shuts down
- I tried restarting with "option V" - nothing. I get the flashing question mark/icon
Please tell me I'm missing something and my hard drive s salvagable.
G4 Powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.7) 1.25GHz

Welcome to Apple Discussions, BrettB.
Alas, from your description, it does not sound good.
Have you also tried booting your PowerBook into FireWire Target Disk Mode (to see if it can be accessed), if you have a bootable backup on an external FireWire drive? Other than that, maybe erase the drive and zero all data.
However, to be honest, I think you may need a replacement drive.
15" 1.25GHz/12" 1GHz PBs, 2xPPC Mac minis, 12" iBook G4, Mac OS X (10.4.6) Cube, 2xTAMs, iPods 2G/4G, iPs, AEBS, AX

Can I install a Lacie D2 Drive in my Mac Pro

newbie question, sorry!
I have a Lacie D2 500 gig external drive that has crapped out on me. I was told that it could be possible that the enclosure is the problem and not the drive itself. If I take the drive out of its enclosure can I install it in one of the Bays in the mac pro?
thanks

okaypaddy wrote:
newbie question, sorry!
I have a Lacie D2 500 gig external drive that has crapped out on me. I was told that it could be possible that the enclosure is the problem and not the drive itself. If I take the drive out of its enclosure can I install it in one of the Bays in the mac pro?
thanks
It could just be the dead/defective power adapter Lacie seems to be a known for. Before you crack the drive open, i would strongly recommend that you test it with a known, working power adapter. Perhaps a friend with the same drive? If you're lucky, i've seen some of the Lacie drives set up in Apple Retail Stores, and perhaps an employee might let you test your drive there. Worst case scenario, you could order a new adapter which will set you back $19.00.
http://www.lacie.com/us/products/range.htm?id=10030

After upgrading to Mountain Lion, my LaCie USB 3 drive will not mount

I just upgraded my OS to 10.8 and now my LaCie P'9230 USB 3.0 external drive will not mount. I have re-installed the USB driver and re-booted the computer and drive several times to no avail; any ideas/help?

mrfredmor_65 wrote:
I just upgraded my OS to 10.8 and now my LaCie P'9230 USB 3.0 external drive will not mount. I have re-installed the USB driver and re-booted the computer and drive several times to no avail; any ideas/help?
It's my understanding that LaCie hasn't released a Mountain Lion driver for their PCIe card yet. Sonnet uses a modified version of the LaCie driver and theirs is dead in the water too for that reason-they also warn that their driver won't work with 10.7.5 when it's released.
Indeed, yesterday I pulled the Sonnet USB 3.0 card from my Mac Pro and replaced it with a CalDigit card from OWC; CalDigit has separate drivers for 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8 and I can say that the card works with all three, the first time in 1.5 years that I've had a reliable USB 3.0 connection.

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