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I Won't be buying another LaCie
Authored by: Diggory on Feb 12, '02 05:28:05PM

As far as I am concerned a firewire drive is a firewire drive. Why they need SilverLining is beyond me. I have a 20GB LaCie drive and if it is unplugged from an OS X box it will not be recognised by any OS X box until it is connected to an OS 9 box. Why?



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I Won't be buying another LaCie
Authored by: livi on Feb 13, '02 04:02:14PM

Same problem here, but with a Lacie USB 20 GB drive... sometimes I can use it for a few days without problems; other times the drive disconects with an error or just disapears while the icons on the desktop are still shown.... very strange ....

My drive is also formatted by Silverlining into 3 partitions...



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I Won't be buying another LaCie
Authored by: Diggory on Feb 14, '02 10:08:52AM

Once I updated the Drive's firmware with the latest version of silverlining in os 9 it has been behaving itself. (so far....)

Thanks MacOSXHints!



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I Won't be buying another LaCie
Authored by: Areh on Feb 22, '02 03:30:56PM

That's a bit rash. I'm using a LaCie 20 Gig pocket drive and it works just fine.
I first used it under 9 (with the program provided with the drive). After that on X. I *never* had a *single* problem either under X or 9. Even after a clean install of 9 thus not installing any specific drivers the LaCie drive was recognized and worked out of the box. I had problems with my hard drives (only recently after upgrading to 10.1.3 a partition went sick (sibling link problem), had to reformat. But I never had a problem with LaCie. For me the drive rocks and I'd recommend it to anyone. Who knows what really caused your problems. Don't forget that there are always *some* individual drive in a product line that have fabrication flaws....



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