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Odd issues when hooking up Firewire Drive
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Aug 2006
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I have an odd issue that has developed on my MBP using OS X 10.5.1 Leopard. It only appears to occur when I plug in my External Firewire Lacie Rugged Hard Drive. I only use that Hard Drive approximately once a week when doing a complete mirror backup of my MBP's Hard Drive using SuperDuper. As far as I can tell the issue occurs only once the Hard Drive is plugged in, not because of SuperDuper or the Backup.
Here is the issue: For some reason within a minute of plugging in my hard drive my Dock doesn't work. It scrolls when I put the mouse pointer down to the Dock but it won't open up any icons I click on. It's just like it doesn't recognize the left mouse button. Also, I am unable to select any menus at the top of the screen. I can left click on them and even right click on an icon such as Macintosh HD on the desktop and there is no response. I am able to drag Windows across my desktop though but it seems overall that my keyboard becomes inactive. For example in a open Numbers spreadsheet I am able to use the left mouse button (so it works then) to select a textbox and get the blinking cursor but yet if I type and use even the delete key there is no response. Even after I'm done with the Hard Drive if I drag the Lacie to the trash to eject it won't eject. The only way to eject it is simply pull the Firewire cable out.
I had a few issues with my system earlier and found out I had some bad memory. The memory was replaced and the problems went away. I am worried I had some corrupted files from that time but what puzzles me is I have used my laptop for weeks with no problems. It is only while I plug in this hard drive. In a worse case if I can't figure out how to fix it I feel I'll have to do a complete format and reinstall Leopard and I don't want to have to do that. This only occurs when I do the backup but can be a pain. Any ideas if I can fix this?
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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That is very, very odd. I'd try a different Firewire drive to see if it's the drive or the computer at fault.
Btw, when you say you do a complete mirror backup each week, are you actually cloning the drive every week, or are you doing an incremental backup? Incremental backups are a much better strategy.
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: London, UK
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Given that Super Duper has only just been released as a Leopard compatible programme yesterday and shouldn't have been used beforehand for a Leopard system, if you have been using it for a while in this manner perhaps the problem is file corruption on the external. If you can afford to lose the content on the external, I would try wiping the drive and starting from scratch using the very latest version of Super Duper.
Another thing to check would be the firmware of the external - is there an update available from LaCie?
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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I was using Carbon Copy Cloner once I went to Leopard and just went back to Super Duper with the update that just came out. I will try another Firewire drive to see what happens but it seems drive related, not backup software related. I'll check Lacie to see if there are updates. The backups that I'm doing are incremental backups.
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