Re: Drive experiences

Lea Murphy <lea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:26:53 -0600

Whenever I have a drive act wonky I take it and it's cable (firewire 400 being my preference) to a new computer to see if it will mount and allow me access.
If it does I retry it on my original computer in a new port.

Most frequently I find my cables go batty, not the ports or the drives.

Lea

On Dec 14, 2010, at 6:36 PM, Don Roberts wrote:

    I have been having an inordinate number of what I
      interpreted as external hard drive failures lately.  After a lot
      of thought and some experimentation I discovered that the large
      majority of those were not the drives but the interfaces.  USB and
      Firewire portals seem to go buggy much more often than the drives
      themselves do.  Have others on this list experienced similar
      situations? Is there a good troubleshooting method to immediately
      identify the source of the problem?

      Don

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