Subject: Re: Mac Data Recovery
From: Kevin Austin (kevin.austin@videotron.ca)
Date: Thu Sep 07 2006 - 11:06:21 EDT
Has anyone had similar / parallel problems with OSX and G4 / G5?
Thanks
Kevin
At 11:00 AM -0400 06 09 07, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
>At 07:42 AM 9/7/06 -0700, Andrew Czink wrote:
>>My school (The Art Institute of Vancouver) uses
>>dozens of them (La Cie drives) 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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