LaCie Porsche hard drive

I have one of those famously-Porsche-designed firewire hard drives made by LaCie which has worked fine for almost a year. Powered by the computer, when I plug it in now ( and I have tried four different macs & powerbooks) the light on the drive comes on but no icon appears on the desktop.

System profiler also cannot find it attached.

How do I get it working again? LaCie don't seem keen in answering my question.

Cheers

does it have another connection type? maybe try connecting through usb 2 or something.

Macman said:

does it have another connection type? maybe try connecting through usb 2 or something.

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No, just firewire - have tried both ports!?

do you hear it trying to access the drive when its connected?

Something similar happened to a friend of mine when he brought his external drive to my house. Plugged it in, hooked it up, but it didn't mount. We later learned that he picked up the wrong power supply. It looked the same. But apparantly it had a different power spec.

If you haven't moved stuff around and used the wrong plug for the external drive - I don't know what it could be.

dziner said:

Something similar happened to a friend of mine when he brought his external drive to my house. Plugged it in, hooked it up, but it didn't mount. We later learned that he picked up the wrong power supply. It looked the same. But apparantly it had a different power spec.

If you haven't moved stuff around and used the wrong plug for the external drive - I don't know what it could be.

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Cable is the same - power is from the computer.

The drive hums and seems normal but no icon.