LaCie 1TB Drive on it's Death Bed?

Hello all,
I've got a LaCie 1TB drive that I've had now for about 4 years… It's got a little space left on it ~36GB. I can copy files off of it fine but I can't copy files to it, nothing. Not even a single .jpg file without getting the following message
"The Finder cannot complete the operation because some data could not be read or written.
(Error code -36)"
I've tried with countless files and copying to and from other drives and using other CPUs but this one drive won't allow files to be copied to it. I've used 3 different drive utilities and each one says that the drive is fine. But it's clearly not.
Here are a few things I think I might have to do but just can't…
1: Buy a new 1TB drive and transfer everything then erase and copy back. (Too expensive and unnecessary)
2: Back up 1TB to DVD-R erase then copy back. (Too expensive and unnecessary)
3: Erase the drive and try to recover the deleted data. (Too risky as the data is needed)
4: Erase the drive and start over. (Unbelievable but…)
5: The drive is 4 years old and should die this year, retire it. (???)
Any advice on this is greatly appreciated. Also what is the expected life of a RAID0 drive setup. I know if one of the drives fail all of the data is irrecoverable isn't it?
Maximilain

desioner wrote:
Also what is the expected life of a RAID0 drive setup.
I don't know if there's any particular "life expectancy" difference for RAID 0, but I do know that for every drive you add, you're that much more likely to lose all your data.
I know if one of the drives fail all of the data is irrecoverable isn't it?
Right, because it puts little parts of the files on each drive. RAID 0 is all about speed (and living dangerously). When I was using a lot of RAID 0 drives, I only put stuff on them that I felt I could lose. And sometimes I did lose it.
charlie

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"=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===",
"Device Model: Hitachi HTS725050A9A362",
"Serial Number: 101218PCG420VLKWRE3C",
"Firmware Version: PC4ACB1E",
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"ATA Version is: 8",
"ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 6",
"Local Time is: Wed Mar 30 23:42:34 2011 CDT",
"SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.",
"SMART support is: Enabled",
"=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===",
"SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED",
"General SMART Values:",
"Offline data collection status: (0x00)\tOffline data collection activity",
"was never started.",
"Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.",
"Self-test execution status: ( 0)\tThe previous self-test routine completed",
"without error or no self-test has ever ",
"been run.",
"Total time to complete Offline ",
"data collection: \t\t ( 645) seconds.",
"Offline data collection",
"capabilities: \t\t\t (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.",
"Auto Offline data collection on/off support.",
"Suspend Offline collection upon new",
"command.",
"Offline surface scan supported.",
"Self-test supported.",
"No Conveyance Self-test supported.",
"Selective Self-test supported.",
"SMART capabilities: (0x0003)\tSaves SMART data before entering",
"power-saving mode.",
"Supports SMART auto save timer.",
"Error logging capability: (0x01)\tError logging supported.",
"General Purpose Logging supported.",
"Short self-test routine ",
"recommended polling time: \t ( 2) minutes.",
"Extended self-test routine",
"recommended polling time: \t ( 131) minutes.",
"SCT capabilities: \t (0x003d)\tSCT Status supported.",
"SCT Feature Control supported.",
"SCT Data Table supported.",
"SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16",
"Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:",
"ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE",
" 1 RawRead_ErrorRate 0x000b 100 100 062 Pre-fail Always - 0",
" 2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 040 Pre-fail Offline - 0",
" 3 SpinUpTime 0x0007 164 164 033 Pre-fail Always - 0",
" 4 StartStopCount 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 413",
" 5 ReallocatedSectorCt 0x0033 100 100 005 Pre-fail Always - 0",
" 7 SeekErrorRate 0x000b 100 100 067 Pre-fail Always - 0",
" 8 SeekTimePerformance 0x0005 100 100 040 Pre-fail Offline - 0",
" 9 PowerOnHours 0x0012 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 747",
" 10 SpinRetryCount 0x0013 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 0",
" 12 PowerCycleCount 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 255",
"160 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0",
"191 G-SenseErrorRate 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 90194313216",
"192 Power-OffRetractCount 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 131087",
"193 LoadCycleCount 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 920",
"194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 171 171 000 Old_age Always - 32 (Lifetime Min/Max 19/43)",
"195 HardwareECCRecovered 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0",
"196 ReallocatedEventCount 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0",
"197 CurrentPendingSector 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0",
"198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0",
"199 UDMACRC_ErrorCount 0x000a 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 46",
"223 LoadRetryCount 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0",
"254 FreeFallSensor 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 185",
"General Purpose Logging (GPL) feature set supported",
"ATAREAD_LOGEXT (addr=0x00:0x00, page=0, n=1) failed: 48-bit ATA commands not supported",
"Read GP Log Directory failed.",
"SMART Log Directory Version 1 [multi-sector log support]",
"SMART Log at address 0x00 has 1 sectors [Log Directory]",
"SMART Log at address 0x01 has 1 sectors [Summary SMART error log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x02 has 1 sectors [Comprehensive SMART error log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x06 has 1 sectors [SMART self-test log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x09 has 1 sectors [Selective self-test log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x80 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x81 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x82 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x83 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x84 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x85 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x86 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x87 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x88 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x89 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x8a has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x8b has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x8c has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x8d has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x8e has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x8f has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x90 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x91 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x92 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x93 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x94 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x95 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x96 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x97 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x98 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x99 has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x9a has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x9b has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x9c has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x9d has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x9e has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0x9f has 16 sectors [Host vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0xa2 has 1 sectors [Device vendor specific log]",
"SMART Log at address 0xe0 has 1 sectors [SCT Command/Status]",
"SMART Log at address 0xe1 has 1 sectors [SCT Data Transfer]",
"SMART Extended Comprehensive Error Log (GP Log 0x03) not supported",
"SMART Error Log Version: 1",
"ATA Error Count: 3",
"CR = Command Register [HEX]",
"FR = Features Register [HEX]",
"SC = Sector Count Register [HEX]",
"SN = Sector Number Register [HEX]",
"CL = Cylinder Low Register [HEX]",
"CH = Cylinder High Register [HEX]",
"DH = Device/Head Register [HEX]",
"DC = Device Command Register [HEX]",
"ER = Error register [HEX]",
"ST = Status register [HEX]",
"PoweredUpTime is measured from power on, and printed as",
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"SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It \"wraps\" after 49.710 days.",
"Error 3 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 747 hours (31 days + 3 hours)",
" When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.",
" After command completion occurred, registers were:",
" ER ST SC SN CL CH DH",
" 84 51 90 a0 be 62 4c",
" Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:",
" CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC PoweredUpTime Command/Feature_Name",
" 61 00 98 30 c4 62 40 00 2d+04:39:24.500 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED",
" 61 00 90 30 bc 62 40 00 2d+04:39:24.500 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED",
" 61 00 88 30 b4 62 40 00 2d+04:39:24.400 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED",
" 61 00 80 30 ac 62 40 00 2d+04:39:24.400 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED",
" 61 00 78 30 a4 62 40 00 2d+04:39:24.400 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED",
"Error 2 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 716 hours (29 days + 20 hours)",
" When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.",
" After command completion occurred, registers were:",
" ER ST SC SN CL CH DH",
" 84 51 61 47 11 61 49",
" Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:",
" CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC PoweredUpTime Command/Feature_Name",
" 61 00 d8 a8 16 61 40 00 21:50:12.100 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED",
" 61 00 d0 a8 0e 61 40 00 21:50:12.100 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED",
" 61 00 c8 a8 06 61 40 00 21:50:12.100 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED",
" 61 00 c0 a8 fe 60 40 00 21:50:12.100 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED",
" 61 00 b8 a8 f6 60 40 00 21:50:12.100 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED",
"Error 1 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 521 hours (21 days + 17 hours)",
" When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.",
" After command completion occurred, registers were:",
" ER ST SC SN CL CH DH",
" 84 51 01 10 00 00 00 Error: ABRT",
" Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:",
" CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC PoweredUpTime Command/Feature_Name",
" 2f 00 01 10 00 00 00 00 00:35:29.400 READ LOG EXT",
" 61 10 b0 88 7d 4d 40 00 00:35:29.400 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED",
" 61 10 a8 c8 6f 4d 40 00 00:35:29.400 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED",
" 61 10 a0 38 6b 4d 40 00 00:35:29.400 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED",
" 61 10 98 48 50 4d 40 00 00:35:29.400 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED",
"SMART Extended Self-test Log (GP Log 0x07) not supported",
"SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1",
"Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBAof_firsterror",
"# 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 724 -",
"# 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 720 -",
"# 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 687 -",
"# 4 Short offline Completed without error 00% 567 -",
"# 5 Short offline Completed without error 00% 523 -",
"# 6 Short offline Completed without error 00% 278 -",
"# 7 Short offline Completed without error 00% 245 -",
"# 8 Short offline Completed without error 00% 228 -",
"# 9 Short offline Completed without error 00% 163 -",
"#10 Short offline Completed without error 00% 151 -",
"#11 Short offline Completed without error 00% 28 -",
"SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1",
" SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENTTESTSTATUS",
" 1 0 0 Not_testing",
" 2 0 0 Not_testing",
" 3 0 0 Not_testing",
" 4 0 0 Not_testing",
" 5 0 0 Not_testing",
"Selective self-test flags (0x0):",
" After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.",
"If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.",
"SCT Status Version: 3",
"SCT Version (vendor specific): 256 (0x0100)",
"SCT Support Level: 1",
"Device State: Active (0)",
"Current Temperature: 32 Celsius",
"Power Cycle Min/Max Temperature: 31/41 Celsius",
"Lifetime Min/Max Temperature: 19/43 Celsius",
"Lifetime Average Temperature: 33 Celsius",
"Under/Over Temperature Limit Count: 0/0",
"SCT Temperature History Version: 2",
"Temperature Sampling Period: 1 minute",
"Temperature Logging Interval: 1 minute",
"Min/Max recommended Temperature: 5/60 Celsius",
"Min/Max Temperature Limit: -40/65 Celsius",
"Temperature History Size (Index): 478 (369)",
"Index Estimated Time Temperature Celsius",
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What to do people. what to do..
removed [code] tags those dont work here!
Woops, Toshiba Travelstar, I mean't Hitachi!
Message was edited by: alin0steglinski

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To be honest, I've had 2 Lacie drives crash out of 2 bought. That's not a good track record for me.
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Don't let the price fool you. It will rock.
Story: I got an iOmega "raid" case with two Seagate drives in it and the iOemga case fried, but the hard drives were still good. Fortunately, they were in two removable trays. I put them into two "rocketfish" hard drive cases almost 3 years ago and I am still using them every day today.
Moral of this story: It's the quality of the hard drive that matters, not what case it's in.
Is it hard to set up?
Not at all. You put the hard drive into a tray, (with Vantec case), screw it in. It only goes in 1 way. Plug in a power cable to the drive. Slide the tray into the case (carefully, don't munch the power cable!) and screw it in place. You can literally do it in 10 minutes or less. There are, of course instructions, but if you are reasonably clever, you can literally see what plugs into what just by looking at it.
Sorry for the long reply, but I have a lot of experience with external drives and I hope this helps others.
Finally, when you make it to the big time you can spend $400, get yourself a firewire RAID enclosure and you can upgrade to 4 external hard drives in 1 enclosure. Figure $800 for that set up, but you can go up to 12 TB of drive space with that, or up to 3TB if you are running redundant discs. But that's a whole other ballgame...
Peace.

Lacie 1Tb USB HDD not recognized, even in Disc Utility

Hi to all,
I have just bought a Lacie 1Tb external USB disk. It did not work correctly under Mac OS X but it works when I use it under Parallels. It is formatted as NTFS and I manage to use correctly under OS X my old Lacie 250 Gb (also NTFS). When I connect the drive to my MacBook Pro nothing happens or sometimes a folder appears on my desktop (with the content of the HDD, read only) and in Finder the HDD is mounted with an icon with a W on it (not the usual orange icon with usb symbol). I cannot use the HDD. If I open Disc Utility the HDD is not shown at all but it appears correctly under System Profile. If I boot with the installation DVD and the USB attached, Disc Utility (launched from the DVD) sees correctly the drive. My conclusion is that there is some software that conflict with Mac OS X in mounting the device. Someone of you has any clue to provide? Is there a way to "reset" the way MAC OS X handles NTFS partitions (if it is a problem with NTFS)? The USB disk works correctly on another Mac with OS X (I tried it at the shop).
Thank you in advance for your help and I wish you all a Happy New Year.

Thank you for your reply.
At the moment also the other HDD has the same behaviour. It looks like I screwed up the usual NTFS OS X handling What I did was to uninstall Mac Fuse completely (by disabling it and then by removing the icon from System Preferences, as described in the Mac Fuse help page). I had no need to install drivers to make the "old" HDD to work (when it worked . Also when I tested the 1TB HDD on a Mac at the shop, the Mac came with a clean standard install. The worst thing is that Disc Utility completely ignores the HDD presence so I cannot even initialize it. As I said I could initialize it booting with installation DVD but I would like to fix the issue. I removed Mac Fuse I had installed to try to reset the things... with no success I think that, even without any external software to read/write NTFS partitions, I should be able to mount the drive or at least work with it under Disk Utility, shouldn't I?

Yeah! the 1tb drives are finally in Nepal. So how to I do this...

Hi all, I have been waiting for decent drives to hit the streets here and we now have 1tb drives - Seagate ST31000340AS - so I am preparing to fix all these iMacs that are currently hooked to much smaller drives via various interfaces. I have some nice cases made in thailand (tri-ports with Lacie chips inside) and now my question is what is the best way to consolidate configurations. For example:
iMac currently has these exernals in cases that can be swapped out:
1 300gig via firewire 800 - fastest drive for media storage and editing
1 120 gig via firewire 800 - small mobile hd
1 250 gig via firewire 400 - used for timemachine - case is fw400/usb only
Well, given that, and with one more 1 TB, what would u do? thanks!
ps. Oh yeah, how do i do it too! I have drive genius 2 and CCC. would i clone drives/partitions onto the 1tb? most of our partitions are bootable as well with latest OS for redundancy. I don't think I want to be copying files...that may be slow, but not sure what to do here...
added Ps.

Done.

External Lacie 1tb hd wont mount

My Lacie 1tb hd quadra wont mount via firewire 400 with my iMac 17" intel c2d. The odd thing is that it mounts with usb with no problems and not firewire. I will try it on my old iMac G4 via firewire 400 but for now I need for my time machine backups. If anyone could help that would be great thanks!
BTW: I am checking it with disk utility, but i am not really sure if that will do anything

ipodmacdood wrote:
My Lacie 1tb hd quadra wont mount via firewire 400 with my iMac 17" intel c2d. The odd thing is that it mounts with usb with no problems...
It may well be your Firewire support in the external drive is not functioning. This happened to me when my LaCie Rugged Firewire 800 was non-functional although Firewire 400 and USB were fine. LaCie Canada wouldn’t touch it as I had bought the drive on a trip to the US (while on vacation I only used the Firewire 400 connection and thought all was fine; coming back to Canada I discovered the flawed Firewire 800). Lesson learned: I’ll never buy LaCie again. We still use the drive daily via Firewire 400.
Recommend returning the drive immediately to the vendor/manufacturer. Your next drive may be perfect so don’t delay while you have warranty.

Lacie 1TB external HDD recently stopped doing Time Machine backups. Disk Utility recommends that the disk needs to be repaired.

I've been using my Lacie 1TB external HDD for my Time Machine backups for quite sometime. Its never given me any problems until now.
It recently stopped doing the backups, so I checked Disk Utility and it recommended that I repair the disk. How long does it take for Disk Utility to repair a 1TB external HDD?
Other things to consider:
- Cant find the disk in the Finder, I used to be able to do that before.
- When I tried to go a Time Machine backup, it said the disk was not available.
Upon using disk utiliy, I successfully verified the disk. Then I initiated the disk repair process.
The current status:
- checking file system
- Volume repair complete
- Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.
The progress bar says "Verify and Repair volume "LaCie"" - the progress bar does not indicate how much has been done or how long it will take.
Capacity: 1 TB (1,000,204,476,416 Bytes)
Mount Point: Not Mounted
Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
All other status fields blank.
Any one know how long it will take for Disk Utility to repair the external HDD? Any other ideas as to how I can get the Lacie HDD to reconnect with the Macbook and resume normal operations? i.e. Time Machine backups, accessing contents through the Finder.

purduegrad_macguy wrote:
I've been using my Lacie 1TB external HDD for my Time Machine backups for quite sometime. Its never given me any problems until now.
Mine Failed after 3 years and 4 months of using it as a Dedicated TM Backup drive...
When I used Disk Utility for repairs... it went from 7 minutes to 4 hours and after about 10 minutes it was saying 40 hours...
So I just replace it with a New EHD...

Trouble with Lacie 1TB external hard disk

Recently got a Lacie 1TB external hard disk. Need to get as close to 1TB actual capacity as I can.
Used cfdisk to create a single Linux partition, and thought I tried to "maximize" the size.
Used mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 to create the file system.
Tried to mount the disk. The first go around apparently failed (dmesg said there was no journal).
I repeated all of the above and the second time it mounted, but "df -h" reports:
/dev/sdb1 925G 200M 878G 1% /mnt/external_1
What the hell happened?
Can someone please advise on how to fix this, and actually maximize the real available space? Please include the exact utilities and flags you would recommend.
thanks much.

lucke,
i know disks always have less capacity than the nominal size. but a 1TB disk should have more than 900 MB available. possibly as much as 980 MB. that would be commensurate with my past experience using other external drives. over 200 GB used off the bat is ridiculous, and i've never seen anything like that before.
as a revised question to people out there, which fs would you recommend to get the most out of this disk. it's going to have 900+ GB of files, each almost exactly 170 MB, and will be processed via the USB2 interface.

Reboot lafter 10.5.8 2@1TB drives - "Filesystem Verify or Repair failed".

BACKGROUND:
Ok so I upgraded (patched) Parallels a couple of days ago, but didn't reboot yet (I was busy). Then I see the auto update showing me 10.5.8 so I grab that and it's sitting there waiting for me to reboot.
I have 4 browsers open (not windows, browsers - firefox, camino, safari & flock) for about a total of 40-50 windows. parallels is open, excel and word are open and so is thunderbird, iPhoto and a few other random things including time machine (once open I tend not to shut them down). So the systems decides it's had enough and crashes hard (to reboot) it looks like it come sup clean except I get a message about one of my 1TB drives is unavailable but mounted so I can recover data.
I tried to run disk utility to get it back online but I get Invalid inode structure, "Filesystem Verify or Repair failed". I reboot, same. I shutdown, power off, the same. I try my 10.5.6 CD, the same.
I reboot again and go into disk utility and I try to repartition one of the failed drives (time machine drive) and that fails but it does mount the drive so I can read it.
I try to repair the other failed drive and in the meantime I get an external 1TB drive to see if I can recover the time machine data to an external location before I try to putz with it again.
QUESTION:
So anyway any ideas how to get these drives to come back up clean? I'm not so concerned with the data as I run multiple copies of the data across a NAS and two of the three drives. fsck is just not getting me ther as I can't reliably get the drives remounted.

Ok I tried to verify the two drives. One failed to umount (that's ok, more later) and the other umounted but failed to verify.
I attached an external 1TB drive. Formatted it and fired up Synk Pro. I dropped all of the directories from the failed disk into Synk and pointed it at the external drive.
I'm going to bed now and expect Synk to have copied my data from the failed drive by morning. If that all goes well then I'll grab another external drive adn see if on reboot the other disk comes up (it's the time machine disk). I'd like to recover all of that and then repartition the drive that is now working (kinda) and put the data back. I'll also grab a copy of DiskWarrior and see if I can get the second drive back online.
More later.

How do you format a new LaCie 1TB HD to be recognized by FCPX?

Yesterday, I bought a new LaCie 1TB hard drive. I connected it to my 27" Mac computer, thus, the LaCie icon showed up
on my desktop and also (in Finder) under devices. Problem: I edit in FCPX, but I only find two (2) hard drives listed, neither
being the new LaCie!!?? I don't know what is wrong and Apple can't help me either!!! So, if anyone out there in the "community"
knows how to get Final Cut Pro X to recognize this new LaCie HD, I sure would appreciate a walk-through as "to how" - thanks.
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Fist step is to find out whatthe format of the new drive is.
Select the drive in Finder and do a Get Info on it. What is reported as the format?

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