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chasg · Jan 1, 2002, 04:38 PM

Hi All,

I have a LaCie 30Gb PocketDrive, and one of the firewire ports has stopped working properly (if I connect the drive to a machine via this port, the machine either freezes until the drive is disconnected, or nothing happens at all).

The other port works fine.

Has anyone else had this problem? (just curious, I'm sure it can't be fixed and can only be replaced, or so says LaCie tech support)

TIA

Chas

jbarraud · Jan 5, 2002, 11:36 PM

I'm having the same exact problem with my laCie 16x10x40. I just got it yesterday and neither firewire port works. It freezes my machine until I unplug the firewire cable, then my machine un-freezes. Luckily it also has a USB port that works, So I can still burn, but only at 4x.

I'm going to call laCie on monday, but if anyone else has this problem and has a solution or comment, I'd like to hear it.

Jim

OAW · Feb 11, 2002, 02:56 PM

I'm having the same problem with my CD Revo 12x10x24 CD-RW. I've had it for several months now, and it always worked fine. It never was truly "hot swappable" in OS X ... but a reboot always seemed to get my system to "see" it. However, the other day it just started flaking out. I rebooted into OS 9 to use Toast to copy a CD ... and my Cube didn't see the drive. I rebooted again and still no luck. When I rebooted for a third time things went downhill. All of a sudden, my Cube would simply lockup. After awhile I figured out that the machine would lock if the drive was plugged in. Unplugging it returned things back to normal. I rebooted back into OS X to see if the problem was with OS 9, but I got the same results. I unplugged my FW hard drive and plugged the CD-RW into that port to see if I had a bad port on the Cube ... but the drive still didn't work. I then switched firewire cables, and still no lucik.

At that point, I figured that the problem wasn't the OS and it wasn't due to a bad port on the Cube, and it wasn't due to a bad cable. So it must be the drive itself? It's just strange that I have this problem with BOTH ports on the back of the drive all of a sudden. I just successfully burned a CD a week ago, and all of a sudden a drive that hasn't been used since doesn't work. Any help would be appreciated.

OAW