LaCie Firewire Drives

Is there a way in leopard to stop my drives from spinning down when not in use as after about 5 mins they are spinning down.

Hi
Go into System Preferences > Energy Saver > Uncheck ( Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible )
That should stop the drives spinning down.

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10.4 Installation on External Lacie Firewire Drive

Hi -
I have a number of Macs running 10.4 and each has an external Lacie firewire drive attached, with a partition for an external startup drive. I recently bought a new Lacie 250 GB Porsche firewire drive to rplace a smaller Porsche model, but I cannot install OSX 10.4 on it because the install disk does not recognize the external drive as an installation source. I have upgraded the firmware on the drive but that has made no difference. Does anyone have any idea as to what the problem might be and help me figure out how to install the operating software on the external drive? Thanks for your help.
Shelly

Thanks for your reply. The drive is actually being used on a G4 tower that's about 6 years old. I partitioned the drive into two sections: about 7GB for the operating system and the remainder of the 250GB for backup purposes. Neither volume shows up on the Tiger insdtall disk as a source for the installation (by the way, I also tried it on my G3 iBook, with the same results).

Formatting LaCie firewire drive - Powerbook G4

Hi, I have a 40GB LaCie firewire drive that is doing something funny on Disk Utility. It only shows as having 18GB available, and I have tried to delete it using Disk Utility to no avail.
+Question: Can anyone suggest a way to again totally wipe and regain my 40GB?+
Also, any suggestions on how to expand my 1GHz PowerPC G4 12" Powerbook with 768 MB DDR SDRAM would be welcome, as I'd rather keep this machine going well at the moment and save up for a new 'book, love the black version!

Hi Matt,
Thanks, I just did that, and it now shows:
*The top level says:*
Disc description: LaCie Group SA
Connection: Firewire
Total capactity: 18.6GB
Write status: Read/Write
SMART: Not suported
Partition scheme: Apple Partition Map
*Next level says:*
Number of folders:4
Capacity: 18.5GB
Available: 18.5GB
Used: 27.9MB
Number of files: 7
Er, I definelty thought it was a 40GB. Could it be I was mistaken, and it's only a 20GB?!!

Lacie firewire drives in series?

I've been recording audio to a Lacie firewire drive. My internal Raptor drive is full with plug-ins. I need another drive for just plug ins. Has anyone had any success with 2 Lacie drives in series? One for audio recording and the other streaming samples. I was hoping I could put BFD2 on the 2nd firewire, and some of its sample libraries. Thanks

Sure external devices can cause issues with your Mac if it's causing some kind of hardware problem with the Firewire bus-- drawing too much power, over or under voltage etc.. Some iMacs just have problems with the FW ports themselves. Sometime resetting the SMC will fix it: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1543?viewlocale=en_US
I have two FW800 drives from OWC daisy chained and I have not had any issues at all. I would try and isolate the two drives if possible to see if the problem persists. Disconnect one of the drives for a few days and use just one drive. Then switch and connect only the other drive for a few days. Then maybe try one of them on FW800 and the other on USB. The FW400 and 800 share the same bus so it may not be any differnt testing one on each if it ends up being a power issue. I wouldn't think it's a power issue though because the external drives have their own power and should not be drawing any power from the computer. But you never know
George

Xserve won´t mount LaCie Firewire drives

I booted our Xserve with two Lacie´s 1 TB Firewire drives attached and after the boot xserve wouldn´t mount the drives. I tried FW800 and FW400 connections, re-attach drives one-by-one, 4 different cables and also with another Xserve but still no avail.
The drives mount perfectly well on a desktop PowerMac G5 but the both of the xserve´s seems to repel the drives.
Any suggestions? our backups are running on the drives so this is kind of a urgent issue:)

of course, how stupid of me and how clever of the machine:D After unlocking the Xserve the drives mount just fine.
Thanks William, once again:)

External Lacie firewire drive slow access

Around 3 or 4 weeks ago, for seemingly no reason, the 250gb external firewire Lacie d2 drive attached to my PB started running slowly.
To give a bit more detail and example: I run iTunes off the drive and it runs fine. BUT, on most occasions, when I doubleclick the drive icon to open it, I get the beachball of doom spinning away for at least 30-40 seconds before it opens the window - the music playing then cuts out while it's accessing. Not what I expect from a firewire drive. I also hear the little beep from the drive quite often when it's trying to access.
It's getting silly. Although it will quite happily play music on shuffle for the entire evening without cutting, as soon as I try and use the drive like you would any drive (ie. navigating through files and folders), it does the beachball for 30-40 seconds thing every couple of windows. It's made it virtually unusable for everyday working (in the way that I'm going to throw it out the window if it carries on).
I can't remember if it started happening after the 10.4.7 update... I didn't do anything different to cause it, so am perplexed. Haven't tried Lacie forums yet either.
Any ideas, people?

I've now read that adding external drives to the privacy window in spotlight is a bad move. Besides, I need to find stuff and shouldn't have to turn it off (I always thought that after the initial spotlight indexing at first installation, it would just update rather than re-index the whole drive, so it shouldn't be that slow anyways... right?)
So, I've run diskwarrior, and it's optimized. Still the problem persists. LaCie tell me I have to update the firmware, but I'm a bit worried at the risk this poses to the data on the drive (ie. a sh*tload of music among other stuff). I have nowhere to put the 100gb on the drive, as I'm running a PB with a 60gig internal.
Risks?

2 questions: iMac after power failure & Lacie firewire drive keeps spooling

OK, my power blinked the other day and my iMac was off, but to get it to power back up, I had to take power completely away from it for a few seconds before it would respond to the power button at all.
Next, my Lacie external drive keeps spooling for a split second and stops for no reason. As far as I can tell, no programs should be accessing it. It does this about every 10 to 15 seconds. I can still access it when I want and it seems to be working fine, but I know the continuos spooling and stopping cannot be good for it. Any help you guys can give would be appreciated.

Hi John
You don't say or show in your profile, but for the Intel iMac's first reset the SMC (System Management Controller) exactly following all the instructions in the link below.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303446-en
Dennis

Original Mac mini and LaCie firewire drive

Hi all,
I've tried looking through previous posts but can't find anything that seems to relate to my problem.
I've bought a LaCie 250Gb external drive and a DVD burner - both firewire and tried hooking them up to my mini but I can't get either to work.
Tried them individually and swapped cables - also tried with a different cable but still no joy !
I know the port is ok because I connect a video camera and my iPod through it.
I'm guessing that the firewire is 400 and the devices are probably 800 - could this be causing the problem ? Do I need new/different cables ?
Thanks for your time
Alan
Beige MT333 with Sonnet 500Mhz G4 mac mini 1.42 with 256Mb ram Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Ahhh...
I found the answer myself - a PMU reset. Sorted everything.
regards
alan

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.

Mounting a lacie firewire drive on solaris 10

Ouch! I looked everywhere for some good instructions on sun but nada. As this is a Solaris ready (TM) drive I thought I would have better luck. After several kernal panics I finally go it going using these iffy methods. Is there a better way and did I seriously injure anything?
To stop the panics I did
/etc/init.d/volmgt stop
Turned on the drive and plugged the firewire into the sb1000
Followed instructsions from here (using my drive labels)
http://weblog.erenkrantz.com/weblog/2005/04/29 which is listed in this thread http://forum.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=271&threadID=25304
fmthard -i -n "" /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0s2 > /tmp/label.dat
fmthard -s /tmp/label.dat -n "disk" /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0s2
newfs /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0s0
Any comments?
Let me state again that I am surprised there appears to be no information about how to do this correctly (especially considering the kernel panics) in the sol adm manual or the website. Just hacks like the one I used.

It should be the same. For instance with a usb keychain (formated pcfs):
mkdir /usbdrive
mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c3t0d0p1 /usbdrive
On this particular laptop the second usb port was. c4t0d0p1 so:
mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c4t0d0p1 /usbdrive
The numbering might be different for each usb port and you have to specify the filesystem of the usb drive, but it should work.

Boot from Lacie FireWire Combo Drive?

I am waiting for my newly purchased "Snow iMac" to arrive and have run into some problems. I have checked on the Apple website and to my knowing i'm getting the Summer 2001 model. On the specification sheet i looked at on the Apple website it says that my model will have a CD-RW Combo type drive (reads cd's and dvd's and burns cd's). However on the item description i got on eBay - i bought the iMac on eBay - it says it only has a CD-ROM drive! In the worst case scenario it would turn up and have a CD-ROM drive, and i only have Tiger on a DVD. I do have a Lacie FireWire drive that reads DVD's would i be able to boot from it with the Tiger dvd and install Tiger that way?
Thanks, Joe.

Joe,I'm glad you went with that other iMac Snow - saves on worrying about the RAM upgrade for a bit - and was cheaper in the end!
On the specification sheet i looked at on the Apple website it says that my model will have a CD-RW Combo type drive (reads cd's and dvd's and burns cd's). However on the item description i got on eBay - i bought the iMac on eBay - it says it only has a CD-ROM drive!
Here are the iMac specs: Low End Mac. No iMac G3 Slot Loader had a combo drive from new. The later ones had CD-RW drives which do not read DVDs. The Snow either has a DVD-ROM (500MHz) or a CD-RW (600MHz) so unless someone's been tinkering you're getting a CD-RW.
But you should be able to use the external FW drive just fine.
regards
mrtotes

Error message -36 when copying large files from Firewire drive

I have kept several large audio files as backup on an external LaCie Firewire drive. When trying to copying them back, almost all of them starts to copy, then stops and (after a minute or so) report error message -36.
I have run both Apple's Disktools and the latest Diskwarrior, but no errors are reported. I gues the audio files must have become corrupted... What do you suggest that I do? The contain valuable audio information that I really don't want to get lost.
Helge K.

Not helping but others are having the same problem...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2564624

Trouble using firewire drives via thunderbolt adapter on bootcamped Mac Pro 2013 towers

Here at the university, we've just installed a new classroom of Mac Pro towers (late 2013). We like to use Bootcamp in said classroom, and so I (painstakingly) installed Windows 8.1 on a test machine. I've found that the brand new firewire-to-thunderbolt adapters we bought don't seem to work when booted into Windows. I have few LaCie firewire drives I use to install software packages, and the occasional WD My Book, and our students are encourage to purchase G-Drives to back up their film projects.
I have a couple of LaCie drives that I've partitioned as part Mac OS Extended and part ExFat (or even MS-DOS just in case). The Windows-friendly partitions don't mount or even get detected, so I think it's the adapter(s) not being recognized by Windoes, especially since the firewire to thunderbolt adapters work on the Mac side.
Could this be a driver problem like what's mentioned here?

Well, no one answered at all, but somehow the problem solved itself. I'm not sure if one of the automatic Windows updates cleared things up or what, but now I can connect Firewire drives with no problems. Also, as some kind of bonus, Windows 8 is able to read Mac partitioned firewire drives, which I don't think was possible in Windows 7.
The problem may also have been that I hadn't entered the Windows activation key in yet? I'm not sure that makes sense in terms of Thunderbolt adapters...
10+ years ago, I read a Microsoft tip of the day that said "Problems that go away by themselves can come back by themselves." It's haunted me ever since.

Powerbook freezes when I connect maxtor firewire drive

Ever since I installed tiger and upgraded to v 10.4.6 my G4 powerbook freezes when I connect a Maxtor firewire drive. I also recently installed Final Cut Pro Studio v 5.1. The maxtor drive mounts fine on another PB OS X 10.1.2. A Lacie firewire drive mounts fine on both computers. I can't figure it out. The powerbook with tiger crashes on startup when the maxtor firewire drive is attached or when it's just turned on. Does anyone have any solutions??

Welcome to the Apple discussion forums.
This isn't a guaranteed fix, however, did you update to 10.4.6 via software update or the combo installer? There have been some odd happenings recently when people have updated via the software update function. If you did the upgrade that way, you might try clearing your system and kernal caches (I use OnyX to do that, and other maintenance. It can be found at http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html ). Then download the 140mb combo updater, which can be found at http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosx1046comboforppc.html .

External firewire drive constant spin-down/up

I often connect an external Lacie firewire drive to my MacBook Pro for regular time machine backups. When the drive is connected and I'm using my Mac, the drive is constantly spinning and in an 'awake' state.
The drive remains in this state for as long as the display is on. As soon as the display enters sleep mode the external drive spins down, remains in sleep mode for 30 seconds, then spins-up for 20 seconds, only to enter sleep mode again. This cycle continues endlessly causing excessive noise and needless wear and tear.
I've unchecked put hard disk to sleep when possible in the energy saver preferences although this hasn't helped.
Any ideas?

Try un-checking the drive sleep box.
What model is the drive? Is it bus-powered or does it have its own AC power supply brick? What does LaCie have to say?

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