I have 5 external drives attached to my MacBook Pro with Leopard OS
using Firewire 800. I have not had any problems over a many year
period. I never shut the system down and it is the hub for the local
area network which has 4 computers on it.
Tom Barker
On Dec 14, 2010, at 11:47 PM, Karl Shah-Jenner wrote:
Don Roberts :
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
what's your system Don, and your OS?
