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Help! Mac Pro and a temperamental external hard disk
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<blockquote data-quote="plumpjack" data-source="post: 1558902" data-attributes="member: 298978"><p>Good of you to reply again Harry. Interesting thread as you say. However the problem with posters on it appears to be their machine's failure to recognize the drive capacity. Mine recognizes everything okay, and I've even formatted it. I just can't use it in conjunction with one of my other two external disks ['disk 2'], which completely disappears as soon as I switch on the new one. Not sure it's the same problem but it does suggest potential difficulties with Firewire and I appreciate your bringing this to my attention. If it's something other than an iffy disk, as I suspect, I'll have once again to return a perfectly good unit. I'm reluctant to try USB. It's too slow and I've 2TB+ of data to transfer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="plumpjack, post: 1558902, member: 298978"] Good of you to reply again Harry. Interesting thread as you say. However the problem with posters on it appears to be their machine's failure to recognize the drive capacity. Mine recognizes everything okay, and I've even formatted it. I just can't use it in conjunction with one of my other two external disks ['disk 2'], which completely disappears as soon as I switch on the new one. Not sure it's the same problem but it does suggest potential difficulties with Firewire and I appreciate your bringing this to my attention. If it's something other than an iffy disk, as I suspect, I'll have once again to return a perfectly good unit. I'm reluctant to try USB. It's too slow and I've 2TB+ of data to transfer. [/QUOTE]
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