[FCP-L] Re: Glyph Portagig hard drive

Kerry, I'm using the same drive with my MacBookPro early 2008. We've had no power issues at all. We're suing firewire. No disconnects. Periodically when copying files it'll hang with a message implying a corrupt file. Rebooting and copying again works though so I'm not sure of the cause but I don't see any power issues.

Craig Seeman
3rd Planet Video

--- In FinalCutPro-L@yahoogroups.com, Kerry Soloway <ksoloway@...> wrote:
>
> I had a vendor send me a Glyph Portagig hard drive last week with video
> files on it. It is buss-powered so he didn't provide me with the optional
> external power supply. At the office, on a five-year old G5, I was unable to
> read any data, although the System Profiler saw that there was a drive
> attached. This was the case with both the FW 800 and USB 2 connections.
>
> So I took the drive home to test it on my recent generation Intel iMac. In
> this case, the System Profiler wouldn't see the driver, however, if I hooked
> up BOTH the FW 800 and USB 2 ports, it seemed like there was enough power to
> access the drive. Although the Profiler didn't see it, I was able to view it
> on the Desktop and access the necessary files, to a degree.
>
> 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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