On 6/26/05, Rudi Chiarito <nutello@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 11:00:18PM -0500, Justin Conover wrote: > > Well, I think your right, I plugged it into my wifes windows box and > > ntfs failed to format it too, guess I'll be calling LaCie. I thought > > these were supposed to be good drives..... > > Ha-ha, this rings a bell. A colleague of mine had been having problems > weeks ago with a 500GB LaCie on Windows. I think he tried another 500GB > drive the past week and it still exhibited problems. He went back to > a smaller LaCie drive, as those had worked smoothly in the past. As far > as I recall, this happened with both Firewire and USB2. > > Did you notice when Windows actually complained about the drive? I seem > to remember that, when I tried to help him, formatting proceeded fine > up to 50%, after which it slowed down and then failed. This made me think > that there were two 250GB drives inside (the case is larger than the > smaller drives, too), that the second drive was faulty and that the > USB2/FW firmware wasn't handling the error in the best way. Now, based > on his reports as well as yours, I am starting to believe that it might > not be a drive failure, but something more fundamental... > > Can you try creating a partition that takes up the first 49% of the > disk? > > -- > Rudi > My guess is it would be 2@250 in a raid 0, I would pop it open, but I want to send it back :) If my raid 0 guess is correct, it wouldn't matter doing a % since it will pull from both.