Subject: Re: Mac Data Recovery
From: Dennis Bathory-Kitsz (bathory@maltedmedia.com)
Date: Thu Sep 07 2006 - 11:00:45 EDT
At 07:42 AM 9/7/06 -0700, Andrew Czink wrote:
>My school (The Art Institute of Vancouver) uses
>dozens of them in our labs and have never had a problem.
I use external drives on PC (though not LaCie drives) for editing large
projects, and have experienced write failures when using the Firewire port
on the drive shells.
Low-level hardware incompatibilities? I don't know, but these failures can
show up in the most uncomfortable ways -- such as when an entire video
project disappeared during a write failure that trashed the directory maps.
It took two days to recover most of the files sector by sector.
After the failure, I tested the shells with a bunch of spare drives and
different computers (all PCs). Unpredictable write failures would show up
using Firewire, but when I switched to using the shells' USB2 ports, the
drives became completely reliable.
Dennis
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