My external HD refuses to be erased !!!

My Lacie external hd refuses to be erased.
I have tried ALL of the options in Disk utility - also partitioning,
but all i get is " Unknown error: -20 "
Erasing with the " 8Way random write format" seems to work; but it will LITERALLY take almost a whole week!
Really needs help with this one !
(see also my topic "ERASING REGRET" in this discussion)
Torgeir

I'm relieved to see I'm not the only person having trouble with Lacie's drive. I just bought one, and it is very temperamental. At first, I could not get it recognized at all, so I followed a suggestion on LaCie's website, and disconnected everything, power and all, for 15 minutes. I then partitioned the drive under Tiger. It appears to get temperamental if any other device is connected to Firewire. It would not allow me to write to it or eject it if my iSight were connected, and when I tried daisy chaining my OWC hard drive, it allowed me to copy 3GB of material and then stopped. It now gives an error message saying the file names are too long. When I try to eject it, it says it's in use. The only solution seems to be to turn everything off and restart with only the LaCie drive connected.

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