Hi guys,
I have a bit of a peculiar question here...
I've had a LaCie BigDisk for about 3 years now, and it's been running beautifully so far. Until I went on vacation this summer and had the drive turned off for about 3 weeks (let's just say it's been turned on a LOT before that).
Upon returning home I found that the disk didn't mount when started, the blue light would flash continuously and it would make a very low humming noise, not the higher pitched one it makes when it spins up. After leaving it turned on like that for about 20 minutes it suddenly seemed to realize it was supposed to do something and mounted up just fine. I was able to copy files to/from the disk without any problems.
However, that was just that one time. After that it's been unable to spin up and mount no matter how long I keep it turned on, or turn it off and on. The weird thing is though: it's ONLY dead to my iMac, and it's dead to my iMac in both Leopard and Snow Leopard.
I've tried it on my old Powerbook G4 and on my Macbook Pro, and it spins up fine. I've also tried connecting it through FW 400 (instead of 800) and through USB, but no matter what it's dead to the iMac, and that's the computer that needs the disk.
Any clues on this? I tried searching, but it was kind of hard to phrase the question...
thanks for any help you've got!
I have a bit of a peculiar question here...
I've had a LaCie BigDisk for about 3 years now, and it's been running beautifully so far. Until I went on vacation this summer and had the drive turned off for about 3 weeks (let's just say it's been turned on a LOT before that).
Upon returning home I found that the disk didn't mount when started, the blue light would flash continuously and it would make a very low humming noise, not the higher pitched one it makes when it spins up. After leaving it turned on like that for about 20 minutes it suddenly seemed to realize it was supposed to do something and mounted up just fine. I was able to copy files to/from the disk without any problems.
However, that was just that one time. After that it's been unable to spin up and mount no matter how long I keep it turned on, or turn it off and on. The weird thing is though: it's ONLY dead to my iMac, and it's dead to my iMac in both Leopard and Snow Leopard.
I've tried it on my old Powerbook G4 and on my Macbook Pro, and it spins up fine. I've also tried connecting it through FW 400 (instead of 800) and through USB, but no matter what it's dead to the iMac, and that's the computer that needs the disk.
Any clues on this? I tried searching, but it was kind of hard to phrase the question...
thanks for any help you've got!