LaCie Big Disk 640GB Worked then stopped

I know Raid isn't supported by AE(n), but the strange thing is it worked the first day, then I started copying stuff on it and it stopped working. Is it because it started to use both disks?
Is there a way to upgrade the Lacie firmware to disable the Raid?
Any idea? Anyone?
Micha

Have you restarted the Airport remotely by say, changing any settings in the AirPort Utility?
That causes my USB-attached drive to disconnect from the wireless network every time. To get it to reappear, I simply unplug & replug it into the USB connection after the AirPort restart is complete. Worth a try if you haven't done that yet...

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Warning - itunes 7 and lacie Big Disk

At poresent I am attempting to re build my Lacie 500Gb hard drive because itunes 7 has crashed it, please be careful if you have wav files on a lacie big disk
Disk utility does not work to repair the drive, tech tools has recommended using file recovery, what a wonderful way to spend a Friday evening, not listening to music but finding it
Oh and if anyone from the itunes team is reading this and I certainly hope there is, please be aware that if I lose my 500+ strong CD collection from my Big Disk, I will be asking them to send the person responsible for saying this product was safe for public consumption to come to Australia and sit in front of my mini and re rip every single CD one after another. Then they can rebuild the playiists that I so anally created, then they should be made to go and apologise to every single person in the world that their shoddy decision has effected
What a fantastic start to the weekend, thanks itunes, next time wait until it's ready
DjDs
Mac Mini 1.25Ghz PowerPC G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7) 1GB DDR SD DRAM, Migli Mini TV, Lacie Big Disk

I have recently "upgraded" to iTunes 7 myself. I use my old PB 17" as a music server (since work bought me a new 15" MacBook Pro), and . . . uh oh . . . I have my iTunes library on a LaCie Bigger Disk Extreme.
Perusing through the forums, it would seem that a lot of folks have trouble with the new iTunes and external drives, not just LaCie.
iTunes 7 corrupted the directory of the LaCie disk to the point at which I couldn't even mount the disk, and Disk Utility couldn't help me. It was really strange. The first time I ran iTunes 7, it did that whole gapless-playback scan (whatever the heck that is) and then could find none of the songs (it asked me on each song if I'd like to locate the original?). Then, I quit iTunes and couldn't open the LaCie drive icon on the desktop. So, I rebooted, and the LaCie drive wouldn't even mount.
The latest version of DiskWarrior (3.0.3), however, recognized the drive and rebuilt the directory and, I am happy to report, with the rebuilt directory ALL my music works and iTunes 7 seems to work like a charm.
It's a little frustrating that Apple released such a problematic product, BUT, I guess they can't try every possible hardware combination. iTunes and an external hard drive, though, would seem to be pretty common.
Talltexan, have you got the latest DiskWarrior?
Stuart

LaCie Big Disk Warning signs... Should I ditch?

Hi all,
First, want to quickly apologize for not doing a thorough read of all the posts regarding LaCie drives - the problem is that there are so many of them. People apparently are having all kinds of LaCie nightmares, and it would take me forever to read through everything. So here's my issue.
I have 3 LaCie Big Disk Extremes (d2), in three flavors. One 500 G, one 600 G, and 1 TB, each daisy-chained via FW 800 to the FW800 port on my G5 (Dual 2.5 GHz). All three have - until now - been acting just fine, but I just captured a few full HDV tapes to the 1 TB and I have had playback issues that just don't seem to go away. I'll play a few seconds, even at random points of the video, and it will freeze with the spinning beach ball of death.
At first I thought it was software issue, so I reinstalled QT, trashed preferences in FCP, but it all kept coming back to the same problem.
Now, here's the weird thing - when I copy the same video from my 1 TB to one of my other LaCies (which are actually further down the daisychain), the video plays fine, with no stuttering or freezing.
Now reading all of the LaCie posts is freaking me out a tad - is this some kind of warning sign that my 1 TB drive is heading down a dark path?
Is there some way I can fix it by either wiping it or attempting to see about fixing hardware?
And finally, is daisychaining all of these drives on the same FW 800 bus recommended, or is there a better solution (that won't break the bank)?
Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Thanks guys!
Dan
(P.S. Any suggestions on other drive brands? A client just bought a Western Digital MyBook 1 TB, and it seems to be working great, but I'm open to suggestions).

Yes it is true that people report lods of problems with Lacie drives and there are many reasons for that.
Even the power supply is considered dangerousely unreliable.
Another thing is that drives can fail indeed at some point. If you can play the footage from some of your other drives then the 1TB might have some issues (power supply or other is difficult to say). Best would be backing up your media and if you can then run Disk Warrior http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/
Good and not massively expensive drives, should you want new ones, are G-tech and Caldigit (links below). You could RAID a few drives (RAID 0 for example for quicker workflow), however, choice depends on several factors: what format you will be working on in the future, if you want to upgrade to eSATA at some stage, etc. Use the search tool of the forum or google for hints:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5068643
Personally I would NOT go for WD. Not really designed for editing.
http://www.caldigit.com/
http://www.g-technology.com/

LaCie Big Disk Extreme+ Triple 2TB

I am thinking of getting a LaCie Big Disk Extreme+ Triple 2TB for use with Final Cut Express. This drive is actually 2 1-TB disks. Is there any problem using such a drive in capturing video (or anything else having to do with video editing/production)? Thanks in advance.

Do you use them for capturing and editing video?
Yes I do.

Trouble with LaCie Big Disk?

I saw on an archived topic that some others had problems with this 500g LaCie Big Disk. I was curious if there was anyone out there who was having the same problems I am.
The Drive will just periodically shut off for no reason whatever. It's not in use, or anything, it's just sitting there being on, and I get the warning that I've disconnected the drive and don't ever do that, etc.
I informed LaCie about this. I was out of warranty, and they just sent me a new one and it just did the same thing.
Anyone else having problems like this???
If so, was it resolved??
Power Mac G4 Dual 1.25 Mac OS X (10.4.8)
Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hey Thomas...
Thanks so much for the reply -- a good thought - the drive actually can be connected firewire 800, fw400, or usb, and I'm getting the same symptoms when connected with any of them

Icon and use of LaCie Big Disk+ no longer

I purchased a LaCie 1 TB big disk+ external drive. Worked great out of the box. Large enough that I unloaded all of my other external drives onto it. Now, it (the icon) no longer appears on the desktop, allowing me access. The profiler states that it's recognized. I'm using my firewire 800 port which works fine with other drives, so that's not the problem. I also tried connecting it using the firewire 400 port. No luck. I've rebooted numerous times, with and without the drive plugged in. I've turned it on and off, disconnected the power temporarily, disconnected and reconnected, tried reloading the drivers, but get the message they're up to date and fine. Help!

Often LaCie drives will have power supply brick issues that are difficult to troubleshoot as the blue light comes on and the disk spins but nobody is home.
If the drive is under warranty LaCie will replace the brick no charge.
As an aside, you still need to backup the data that is on this drive otherwise you stand a chance of losing all of your data should the drive fail.
Luck-
-DP

LaCie Big Disk Extreme

I own a 500GB Lacie Drive (Big Disk Extreme) that is behaving very poorly. Without elaborating on its behavior I wanted to ask if there are any good companies I can use to replace the drive itself inside the enclosure from LaCie? I've emailed them about this but have yet to hear back & wanted to start a search in case they will not do it.
Thanks,
Harris

Hi
When I was looking into getting an external drive for my Mac, I found a number of posts which seemed to suggest the power supply and cooling used in the LaCie enclosures containing the higher capacity drives weren't as good as they could have been and may lead to premature drive failure.
As far as I'm aware, all external drives are just normal internal drives mounted in an external USB or FireWire enclosure. You can certainly buy the drives and enclosures separately and build your own.
Equally I can't see why you couldn't just buy a drive and replace the existing one in an existing enclosure, or buy an enclosure and replace the existing one containing an existing drive. I guess the only difficulty would be if the LaCie enclosure is sealed or the internal data and power cables are soldered into the back of the drive. Having done a quick search in Google, it doesn't seem too difficult to remove the drive from the enclosure and replace one or the other yourself. I'd imagine this would almost certainly invalidate any warrranty though.
I hope this helps.

LaCie Big Disk 500GB Crashes OSX 10.4.7 when booted??? Help?! I've lost it!

I had this problem once before with kernel panic, but at the time the drive was NTFS formatted for the PC I was switching from. I networked, manipulated the data around, and transferred the data over the network then reformatted the LaCie as a Mac drive and re-uploaded all the files to it via the Mac G5.
Now, after I upgraded to 10.4.7 it seems, every time I try to boot the computer with it connected, it causes a crash/kernel panic forced hard reboot shortly after completely booting up.
I AM REALLY DISAPPOINTED IN APPLE. I switched back from the PC, hoping for an improvement for my thousands of dollars, but nooooo. Aperture? HA! Mail? corrupted, can't find stuff from 6 months ago anymore... Jesus Apple, get your $#!^ together! /rant
Can anyone help me get this Lacie back online? I'm completely hosed now b/c it won't mount on the PC either now that it's been 'Mac'ed' - which I am starting to look at as a technical equivalent of 'pimp-slapped'...
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Hey Apple, looks like it's time for 10.4.8?
G5 Dual 2.3 Mac OS X (10.4.7) 4GB RAM

Ok, I'm going to jump in here now.
I have a Lacie 320GB drive, that I borrowed from a friend, that has an NT filesystem. I'm running a bone stock 2.3Ghz dual G5 (5 months old) and 10.4.7.
If I plug the drive into either the front panel FW400 port -or- the rear FW800 port the machine will crash in about 5 seconds. The screen goes gray from the top to the bottom kind of like a shade being pulled down. Then I get the message in a small window that says to hold down the power button to reboot my computer.
Funny thing is, I also have a 1.67GHz G4 15" Powerbook, also running 10.4.7, and the drive works in both the FW800 and FW400 ports on that. I also plugged it into my (very old) 350Mhz G3 running 10.3.9 and it works fine there too.
Now onto my second, but related issue. I have a 250GB Lacie FW800/FW400/USB 2.0 drive also. Been using it for almost a year and always worked perfectly (Mac FS on it). Before I tried the other external drive (talked about above) I plugged this 250GB drive in and ....nothing.... It doesn't appear visible to the Mac in any way since updating to 10.4.7. Used it two weeks ago when running 10.4.6 and it worked fine. Now this drive is NOT visible on ANY machine that I have. I've tried all three ports on the drive (FW800, FW400, USB-2) with different cables and different computers. The drive is NOT visible on any of them. Disk utitility doesn't see it, the system profiler doesn't see anything on any of the ports. Funny thing is that as soon as you plug the drive into a port it fires up (light turns on) and you can hear it doing its thing internally just like it always has.
Now this could just be a coincidence that it went missing after installing 10.4.7 but I'm starting to think that 10.4.7 did something with the drive.
Remember, I have 2.3Ghz dual G5 which is ABSOLUTELY in stock condition as it came directly from Apple about 5 months ago. No extras, nothing special. Looking at your signature I see that we have pretty much the same machine.
I can only conclude that there is some problem with 10.4.7 software and my machine's hardware. You are seeing the same behavior and don't have an NT filesystem on your external drive so it doesn't appear to be related to that.

Lacie Big Disk BIG ERROR (-9972)

Below is the definition for the issue I'm having on my G4. I've used disk Utility, Drive Genius and Disk Warrior. None of them could fix the issue. The solution below states that I should "back Up" the disk and start fresh. Here's the problem: How I access files on a drive won't allow me to see what's on it?
Any help will do.
Much Thanks.
~MF
Symptoms
In rare circumstances, Disk Utility may display the following message when you try to verify or repair a disk:
"The underlying task reported failure"
The Disk Utility log will also display a -9972 error code. This indicates that your disk volume has issues that Disk Utility cannot fix.
Products Affected
Disk Utility, Adobe Photoshop CS2, Adobe Illustrator CS2
Resolution
What can I do?
If you experience this rare occurrence, you should attempt to resolve the issue as soon as possible.
Try using fsck in single user mode, or start up your computer from a different volume before verifying or repairing.
Back up as much of your important data and files as you can, then try using a third-party disk utility to repair the drive. Be sure that you use one that works with your version of Mac OS X.
Back up as much of your important data and files as you can, then perform an Erase and Install installation of Mac OS X on the affected volume.
Important: This option completely erases the destination volume and then installs a new copy of Mac OS X. You should always backup important files on the target volume before performing an Erase and Install installation. You can then restore your backed up files afterwards.

Hi, ~MF -
It is good practice to cite the source of quoted material; if possible, give the link to the aarticle. In this case, it would appear that you quoted a portion of this Apple KBase article -
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1901
If you have tried to do what you can using Disk Utility (while booted to a CD) and Disk Warrior, try using a data retrieval program to capture your data from the drive before re-initializing it, such as -
Data Rescue
Virtual Lab
Both of those have trial versions available for download; either may have restrictions re what versions of OSX they support.

POP account worked then stopped working

I used Mail to access my Compuserve account POP3-enabled mail account for months. Then it just stopped working. I changed no settings, did not alter the connection method to the internet, zip, nada.
I'm loathe to delete the account and start again because all of the messages will (supposedly) be deleted from my computer.
Any suggestions?

Well, now nothing works.
I have maintained a Compuserve account since 1984. I use the CSERVE software on my PCs and mail2web.com from remote locations (other people's computers). The account is active and works fine using those two methods.
After getting the G5 to do some editing, I setup MAIL to work with my new mac.com account and my existing Compuserve account. Everything hummed along just fine (I set the POP account to leave the messages on the server so i could access them from all my computers) until one day the POP account stopped retreiving the Compuserve address's messages.
That's what started this thread. The MAIL application no longer downloaded messages from CSERVE. Because Compuserve (now a member of the AOL family) stopped allowing the use of their SMTP server for uploaded (sent) messages, I simply used the mac.com account for outbound messages sent from my G5. Therefore, it the CSERVE SMTP server was never a part of this configuration.
In an effort to obtain more info, I logged onto my .Mac Mail page. For some reason, initially I was denied access, so I reset my password. I believed that I used the same password as before. Now MAIL will not access ANY of the accounts. Account Doctor show three failures (mac.com account, compuserve.com account, SMTP access). Earlier this morning only the compuserve account failed. Now all three show red lights.
I can fully access the mac.com mail on the web, however the compuserve account fails (this is from the G5). I can access my compuserve account from my PC, both with their software and via two different browsers. I can access my mac.com account via web2mail.com from both computers. the accounts are active and accessible.
My MAIL app seems to be failing. Makes no sense, but that's where I'm at.

Hp 2000-2b89wm usb ports stopped working and sound has started to work then stop working

My wife bought a Hp 2000-2b89wm notebook brand new alittle over a year ago. Has had a few minor issues but nothing major. About a month ago after it downloaded a bunch of updates the sound would work if you boot the computer but after about 10 minutes the sound would cut off. If you reboot the computer it will work again, but it is the same thing over and over. Today we found the all the usb port have stopped working. The system says they are there and working, but they will not find anything or work. Any ideas how to solve these problems?? She has alot of info. on the system so she really doesn't want to do a restore, and she cannot back everything up on a flash drive because the usb ports are not working. We would be thankful for any help on this issue!

Hi pacman43,
I believe that your problem may be caused by a Windows update. At this time there is a Windows update the may be causing the sound to stop working on some computers. The update is KB2962407, and it is now an “Important” update. That means that it will be installed by Windows Update unless you hide it.
1. Follow the steps in this document are attempted: No Sound from Speakers (Windows 8)
2. Try creating a new user account. The changes forced by the update may only affect one user. This HP document shows you how to create a new user under the “Creating a new account in Windows 8” section: Managing User Accounts and Logins (Windows 8)
If this did not resolve the issue, then follow this information from SuperMario1 for troubleshooting the update.
First, you can try the Hotfix in this Microsoft document, specifically to address KB2962407: Windows RT, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2012 update rollup: June 2014
If that doesn't help, then uninstalling the Windows Update, and then hiding it, is the only method of eliminating the issue if it caused by this update. Here is the procedure for uninstalling the update:
1. Go into Control Panel, then click on “Programs and Features”.
2. Click on “View Installed Updates”. Look for the update with the ID number KB2962407.
3. Right-click on the update and select “Uninstall”. Restart the computer.
Next, here is the procedure for hiding the update:
1. Go into Control Panel, then click on “Windows Updates”.
2. Click on “Check for Updates”. When the process is completed, is should find important update(s) available. Clicking on the message will open a window where the important update(s) is.
3. Right-click on the KB2962407 update and select “Hide Update”. This will prevent the update from being installed next time Windows Updates are being installed.
I hope this information helps, please let me know how it goes.
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Will a WD Caviar drive from LaCie Big Disk Extreme go into an internal bay?

Two LaCie external hard rives would not mount. I have taken the WD drive out of the D2 Quadra and put it into bay 2 in the Mac Pro and it worked immediately. I cannot physically fit the two WD Caviar WD2500JB drives into bays 3 and 4. Is there any way of doing this, so that I can see whether the drives themselves are OK, like the drive from the D2 Quadra was ? Is there some kind of adapter that can be used to do this ? If not, is there any other way of mounting the drives so that I can recover the data from them ?
Many thanks to anyone who offers any solutions.

We know, and read lots of reports, where LaCie are a problem, but you seem to be using PATA drives and your best option is pick up a FW case, one that uses ATA drives.
http://www.macsales.com/firewire/
You could though just replace the two drives with one SATA 640GB, just a matter of getting the data off. And for that you could try to find a docking station, but if they were in RAID you have more problems.
I would never buy or recommend MyBook, or any vendor label cases though.

Connection to Oracle XE via IIS/ASP app was working then stopped

I am prototyping an application for my new management here so that I can recommend they use Oracle XE.
The connection to the Oracle XE database appears to have stopped working, via an IIS/ASP application I wrote. I can still connect through ODBC using native MS Access to Oracle XE, when logged into XP, its just when I try to log in using the app via IIS I get the following error:
Unable to establish connection to database.
Error information:
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers (0x80040E4D)
[Oracle][ODBC][Ora]ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified
It was working for a while, like the whole first week. It might be related to the fact that that I finally rebooted, not sure.
I have tried many, many things. I made the IUSR account an admin on the box hoping that maybe it had just lost access to the local ODBC/TNSNAMES. Right now all the components are local to my development box, from the IIS server to the Oracle eXtended Edition database (XE, free). Like I said, it was working. I did have this same message I believe early on, which turned out due to the fact that my ODBC DSN was a local DSN, instead of a System DSN, which I overcame at that time. But it just started happening again, possibly after a reboot.
I also tried switching to a local MS Access database, and I got a similar message. I moved the Access db to c: root, and it appears to work, so it appears to be a file/directory access issue.
But I'm not sure how to resolve it because I would much prefer to use the Oracle database.
Thoughts?

As far as the connect string goes, I'm not sure exactly what to specify to you.
I am using the default connect string that comes when you install XE.
I.e., "XE".
I suspect this might be a path issue for the virtual account that is used by IIS sessions. As you may know, when IIS runs, it logs the web user into the box using a dummy account, typically prefixed with the string "IUSR".
Although I made this account an admin to the box, I think I may need to add some of the Oracle Client directories to the path which is accessed by this IUSR account. The problem is, the acount, with its password, was set up by default and I don't know what its password is. But I think that I could try to adde Oracle's home path to the default system path, what do you think?
In other words, I don't think the XE connection libraries are available to this dummy IIS account. The strange thing is, it worked for a while, ostensibly till I rebooted.
Know also that I am not using the Oracle Client per se, although I did install it and try it with mixed results. I am just using the Oracle OLE DB ODBC that appeared when I installed the Oracle XE server itself.

Throw to Sony bluray theatre worked then stopped

When I got going with tablet, I could throw to my bluray theatre system BDV E380 and it worked no problem. Somewhere along the line however it stopped working - I can no longer see the hometheatre when adding device. No problem throwing to Bluetooth device, and I can even throw to an XMBC renderer on my Mac. Also tried the media remote app, but cannot register the tablet.
I've done factory resets on both the home theatre as well as the tablet, no luck.
Where to start looking?

Well, the first thing would be to try sending something to your bluray theatre from another device, to see if the problem is related to the tablet or the BR system. Since the tablet can send to other devices it seems like there might be something with the BR system.
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Auto-Brightness Issue. It randomly worked, then stop working all together.

Auto-Brightness Issue.
It randomly worked before, now it's not giving off any brightness at all. Unfortunately it stopped coming on all together. I tried updating it Itunes and it comes back on but tried to restore my Ipod touch. After restoring it, it said "restore error -50" and the backlight STILL doesn't come on, not even a flicker. PLEASE HELP!!!

Okay I tried to restore using iTunes and a little screen came up stating: An error occured while restoring this iPod (-50). I don't know what that means. It still ask do I want to continue to restore, but always gives me that same message. To make matters even worse, there is no Apple store in my town. The nearest is 3 hours away.

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