Lacie firewire drive wont boot

Hi there,
Since i got the Lacie 200G firewire from Lacie back last November, I have been using Silver Keeper 1.14 for back up my powerbook. Starting new year, the Lacie drive is acting strangly again. it allows me to back up(I am using back up sets), but everytime when i boot from the Lacie back up drive, the system just froze at the gray Apple Logo. i noticed a twitch that shifted the grey apple logo downwards a little bit, and the spinning wheel didn't even showed up. i tried to zero format for the partition, zero format the whole HD, and nothing worked. Everytime i want to start back up, there will be an error message from Silverkeeper, "Failed to Register "Lacie Back up Support" for Privileges. I don't remember i encountered such error message before til recently.
Oh, and when i try to repire permission on the back up partition, it seems that every files needs to be repire premission. The list of files is so long that i don't think it's a good idea to post it here...
Is my drive broke again? Sigh.................
Shan

I believe you need to download and install a firmaware update from LaCie. My extrnal drive would not consistently appear after installing 10.4, so I went to the support section of the LaCie website and downloaded the latest firmware. It now works fine.

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