Monday, November 2, 2009

[FCP-L] Re: Glyph Portagig hard drive

I think it's either a bad power supply or a faulty bridge chipset. I'd be worried that the spontaneous disconnects will eventually corrupt the data or result in mechanical damage.

I've had this happen a couple of times. #1: I kept trying to copy as many files as it would let me before disconneting and also run repair utilities on the drive. In short order the drive stopped working altogether. The drive never worked again, even in a different case. #2: As soon as the problem started, I pulled the hard drive out of the case and plugged it into one of those "caseless" USB connection rigs. The drive worked perfectly and all the data was saved.

Good luck -- Mark

--- In FinalCutPro-L@yahoogroups.com, Kerry Soloway <ksoloway@...> wrote:
>
>[snip]
> It would copy for several minutes and then stop giving me an error message
> that I disconnected the hard drive. Then it would reappear and continue
> copying. In the end, I chose to transfer a few files, eject and disconnect
> the hard drive allowing it to cool down, and then reconnect and repeat. In
> the end I was able to retrieve all of my data but I was wondering if anybody
> else has had a similar experience.
>
> I assume that there was just not enough power getting to the drive to
> operate reliably and I have asked for the power supply in order to test my
> theory. Am I missing something?
>
> Kerry


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