Looking to test my LaCie Bigger Disk - Columbus, Indiana

Hi,
Anyone living in Columbus, Indiana so I can test my LaCie external Hard Drive on? Here's the problem. My Power Mac G5 doesn't reade my LaCie Bigger Disk when I use my FireWire 800 cable. It does however, read my LaCie Bigger Disk when I use the FireWire 400 cable, or my USB cable. So, either my Power Mac FireWire Port is bad or my LaCie Port is bad. I've tried two different FW Cables and have the same problem, so I know it's not the cable. On my LaCie I have two FW 800 ports and I have the same problem no matter which port I use. My guess is that my Power Mac 800 port is bad, but to make sure I need to plug my LaCie into another machine - iMac G5, or Power Mac G5.
To test my LaCie on another machine means driving up to Indy or Bloomington. I'd rather test it here in Columbus and if it's my computer then I'll make the drive to repair it....
Please contact me at: [email protected]
Thanks,
Tom
Power Mac G5 Quad Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Hi wilnin
Welcome to the discussions.
I see you also posted in the macrumours forum, so I'll try not to repeat what's posted there. The following is just some guessing, describing what I'd try to get the Bigger Disk running again.
I think the difficulties could stem from different block sizes if the bigger disk really provides a hardware based raid-0. Look at the labels on the disks to rule this one out. Also you'll find the advice of only raiding disks of the exact same model.
But then again many sources state the LaCie Bigger Disks are only JBODs, so this shouldn't matter.
Make sure you got the slave/master jumpers set the same as with the original lacie.
I'd partition all the disks seperately using disk utility with a Master Boot Record Partition scheme with no partitions (=free space) on them, then put them back in the case.
Hope this helps a little.
--greg

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graceyfox wrote:
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I have an iMac G5 that I recently upgraded to
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over a year, and all of my iTunes content is stored
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to that lacie hard disk.
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Finder, and that is yielding an error (error code
-36).
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