Mac Pro Randomly Dismounting Drives

prairiesun · prairiesun #1 (**permalink**)

04-23-2010, 07:19 PM

Hello, I am using a mac pro with everything pretty much stock. The one thing that has been upgraded is the graphics card. Now, my problem is the fact that when I am running two hard drives simultaneously from the FW400 port in the back and the FW400 port in the front, one drive randomly dismounts. This is a major problem because I am working in a professional music studio environment and my clients file database is dismounting while recording. I do not want to lose my clients or their files, or completely ruin a recording, so does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Kyle

Collin Bl · Collin Bl #2 (**permalink**)

04-23-2010, 11:39 PM

Hi Kylie, welcome to the Forum. Been down that road and in my case i had intermittent Firewire on a MBP and a La Cie enclosure that would unmount when it got to a certain temperature. Proved the HD was Ok by taking it out of the enclosure and mounting it in a Voyager Q drive dock (Review) where it remained on desktop.

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prairiesun #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Apr 23, 2010 Posts: 1	04-23-2010, 07:19 PM Hello, I am using a mac pro with everything pretty much stock. The one thing that has been upgraded is the graphics card. Now, my problem is the fact that when I am running two hard drives simultaneously from the FW400 port in the back and the FW400 port in the front, one drive randomly dismounts. This is a major problem because I am working in a professional music studio environment and my clients file database is dismounting while recording. I do not want to lose my clients or their files, or completely ruin a recording, so does anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Kyle
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Collin Bl #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Apr 07, 2009 Location: Napier NZ Posts: 3,273 Mac Specs: 27 iMac i5, 2.4 C2D MBP & iMac 20, 1TB dual TC, AppleTV, iPh4	04-23-2010, 11:39 PM Hi Kylie, welcome to the Forum. Been down that road and in my case i had intermittent Firewire on a MBP and a La Cie enclosure that would unmount when it got to a certain temperature. Proved the HD was Ok by taking it out of the enclosure and mounting it in a Voyager Q drive dock (Review) where it remained on desktop.
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