Lacie d2 500gb unrecognised

I bought a lacie d2 500gb drive yesterday, tried to mount it this mormning on both powerbook and g5 but it is unrecognised. I have two other 250gb lacies that have always worked fine.
When i shut down and restart with the drive connected i get a message that the disk i inserted was not recognisable by this computer, tried to initialize but no luck. When i try first aid the disk is unrecognised and i can't even erase and start again. Firmware is ok. Tried firewire 400 and 800 leads. Help - two hours of wasted time....

Adz, are these bus powered or with external power leads? If the latter, try one of the 250gb leads with the 500gb external. There have been recent reports of failing LaCie power supplies.
best wishes
Andrew Platt

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Ryan,
Check drive volume name and also the Computer name. Apple released a tech note recommending that both be limited to only the characters A-Za-z0-9 (no dashes, hyphens, or other special characters.
If you can, send the Apple System Profiler report to me at the addres in my profile. Imay be able to see something there. I have helped another user with similar problems, but with a LaCie USB drive. He got things working by repeating the recommended steps, and double checking everything.
As others have rported, this should work, so there may be something else preventing proper operation.
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I had a Western Digital My Passport Studio model like that. It has nothing to do with cables or your laptop. It has to do with manufacturers who fail to adhere to the proper power standards for the interface. Basically, if the drive demands more power then the port will give, it is never going to work.
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Message was edited by: Revearti

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