Re: Problem accessing Lacie d2 Extreme Hard Drive from my desktop

The hard drive is connected to firewire port either a 800 or 400. It mounts on my desktop but closes right away when I try to access it. i didn't have this problem before until this afternoon when i tried downloading a mp3 directly to Lacie while it was still streaming...not a good thing i realized.
I tried the hard drive on another computer, i was able to open it fine; tested it using different firewire cable, that didn't work, and i even reinstalled Tiger, that didn't solve the problem either.
I am little anxious because the drive's got all my stuff on it. Please help?

I think you might be right Patrick. I did reformat the drive and it seemed to respond quicker to being launched, but I was still having my "Initializing Log and Cap" dialog box freeze up.
So, first thing I did was go online and make sure I had all the current software updates and it turned out there was an iMac Firmware update (I admit, I'm not so savvy as to understand exactly what a firmware really is, but I felt it must be important..)
Anyway, after getting all the current updates I went back into Final Cut Pro and tried to capture. Just to make sure things were on the up and up, I started checking my system, user, and audio/video settings.
In the process of checking my settings I started getting "the pinwheel of death". (The mouse pointer was just spinning away..) I tried just turning my camera off and it suddenly unfroze!
I tried to log and capture and when I got the same problem of freezing windows, turning my camera off unfroze everything. Weird.
The messed up part is that the camera is only an issue when my New Lacie drive is mounted by itself. When only my old Lacie Drive is mounted the Log and Capture window sees my Canon Optura 60 just fine. When both drives are mounted, sometimes a project file from my old Lacie will let me capture from my Canon or it will just claim there's no device control.
I'm thinking the only solutions is to go out and buy me a cheap handheld from Wal-Mart and to make sure it's any other brand than Canon. Maybe Panasonic?
iMac Intel Duo-Core; Intel Mac mini single-core Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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*My Concern*
Hi I have a Lacie Big Extreme Hard drive, which although works fine is not showing its connection, shows up in the system profiler as 'Connection Speed Unknown'. -Should I be worried? I have other drives connected to my G5 Dual 2 gig machine and no problem their they all show their connection speeds.
*Other Firewire 'Unknown Speed connection' related Problem*
I had a DVD LaCie Dual layer portable Firewire drive which recently suffered from the same problem and I had to send it back. This was due to it slowly developing a fault of not being able to burn dual layer disks properly.
*What I have done to try and remedy the situation.*
I have been able to do the following but I am afraid with no change in the system Profiler;-
1 Trashed the whole system and rebuild
2 repair my permissions
3 empty out all my caches with OnyX (third party app) version 1.8.5
4 Disconnected all drives and reconnected them one by one to see if there are any anomalies within the system
5 switched my G5 off removed the plug from the wall waited 30 sec for it to reset itself this was the 1st attempt. On my 2nd attempt I then cold booted the machine and reset Pram settings
6 used Tech Tools Pro 4 version 4.1.2
7. Replaced Power supply of the offending unit (didn't have to but I wanted to be safe and eliminate this fronm the equation.
9.tried changing around the order in the chain to which the drives were connected to the G5but alas no joy!
Summery
So my concern is if a device which is Firewire shows up in the system profiler as connection speed unknown should I begin to worry even though it appears to be functioning.
Thank you ahead of time for any help on this matter
*Supporting evidence*
Please see below a shot of my System profiler so you can see what I mean:-
*(Important Note)*
The Lacie Big disk has 800/400 Firewire connection speeds I have connected it straight to my G5s firewire 800 port then daisy chained the LaCie's via its other 800 port to the two other 800 Firewire Hard drives.
When the LaCie DVD DL drive was connected, I connected it straight to the 400 firewire port. As it needed direct access to the G5 for it to function optimally.
*System Profiler Info under OSX Tiger 10.4.11*
FireWire Bus:
Maximum Speed: Up to 800 Mb/sec
LaCie d2 Extreme LUN 0:
Manufacturer: LaCie Group SA
Model: 0x0
GUID: 0xD04B710B061FB5
Maximum Speed: Up to 800 Mb/sec
Connection Speed: Up to 400 Mb/sec
Sub-units:
LaCie d2 Extreme LUN 0 Unit:
Unit Software Version: 0x10483
Unit Spec ID: 0x609E
Firmware Revision: 0x102
Product Revision Level: P22O
Sub-units:
LaCie d2 Extreme LUN 0 SBP-LUN:
Capacity: 153.38 GB
Removable Media: Yes
BSD Name: disk2
OS9 Drivers: Yes
S.M.A.R.T. status: Not Supported
Volumes:
disk2s6:
Capacity: 153.38 GB
Available: 102.21 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: HFS+
d2 quadra (button):
Manufacturer: LaCie
Model: 0x4136
GUID: 0xD04B840A07A9A5
Maximum Speed: Up to 800 Mb/sec
Connection Speed: Up to 400 Mb/sec
Sub-units:
d2 quadra (button) Unit:
Unit Software Version: 0x484944
Unit Spec ID: 0xD04B
d2 quadra Unit:
Unit Software Version: 0x10483
Unit Spec ID: 0x609E
Firmware Revision: 0x110
Product Revision Level:
Sub-units:
d2 quadra SBP-LUN:
Capacity: 465.76 GB
Removable Media: Yes
BSD Name: disk4
OS9 Drivers: No
S.M.A.R.T. status: Not Supported
Volumes:
disk4s3:
Capacity: 465.64 GB
Available: 250.79 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
LaCie Big Disk Extreme LUN 0:
Manufacturer: LaCie Group SA
Model: 0x0
GUID: 0xD04B741A058BFC
Maximum Speed: Up to 800 Mb/sec
*Connection Speed: Unknown --------------------------**{this is where my concern lies}*
Sub-units:
LaCie Big Disk Extreme LUN 0 Unit:
Unit Software Version: 0x10483
Unit Spec ID: 0x609E
Firmware Revision: 0x102
Product Revision Level: 912
Sub-units:
LaCie Big Disk Extreme LUN 0 SBP-LUN:
Capacity: 931.52 GB
Removable Media: Yes
BSD Name: disk3
OS9 Drivers: Yes
S.M.A.R.T. status: Not Supported
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disk3s6:
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Available: 181.67 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: HFS+

Hi BDAqua - thanks a lot for replying - really appreciate your help. I was using Time machine to back up on the old lacie drives that I have - I just backed up on both lacies and they backed up faster for some reason but that might have been because they were very small back ups as I did full back ups on Tuesday night - this is the info under the USB section > hardware > about my mac - it didn't show the speed like the example you gave me though but it still backed none the less :
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I am posting on the forum for the first time from a cold Sweden.
I have had my Time Capsule for Time Machine bacup since April this year and it has been working okay until about one month ago. After that I can only connect my Mac mini for max 1 day, then the connection to my Time Capsule is broken.
I have read here in forums and also read pondini's excellent information
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