AĬorrect version of Drive Genius may also have a tool capable of this job. Sure if that is capable of fixing a mount issue, in that instance but DiskWarrior may. Utility sometimes, issues result from improper mounting or re-mounting of a peripheral.Ĭan you get the external drive to mount correctly via your computer's Disk Utility? Not You may be able to try to fix the mount issue of that LaCie by using a third-party disk Likely to fail first starting with a noisy hard drive sound inside the case. This other D2 or whatever (not thinking clear getting an interruption at the moment) is The LaCie Porsche-design external FW HDD enclosure so far has been flawless but And my notes of experiences inĭealing with the computer were disregarded so I took matters into my own hands. My region were unable to find anything wrong, and I could reproduce the issue onĭemand repeatedly, and my iMac would freeze solid. One I bought to troubleshootĪ failed iMac G4 under AppleCare when the supposed expert authorized resellers in Was curious as to what caused several of them to fail. Some of the LaCie forums have some information or ideas on what others have tried Īnd when tracking down info on one model I was given (that has a mixed history) I To have as a backup to the original part. Power supply of similar spec to replace a suspect LaCie supplied one, is probably handy This is not likely to produce the issue you refer to in your inquiry. The one issue some had, was a surge that affected the circuitry in the enclosure. I leave one of my LaCie's in its box when not in use,Īnd a second one has both the power adapter and FW cable, not attached to anything.
Not certain what path is best or most likely, but do know some LaCie issues includeĪ power surge from the computer on startup that could affect some models of LaCieĮxternal drive via FireWire port so if the external FW drive is not needed all the timeĪnd the computer is attached, consider not plugging in the LaCie's FW cable if youĭo not intend to use the drive.
Utility such as DiskWarrior, may be used to attempt to rebuild or replace a directory. In some cases, where a bootable system in an external is involved, there may beĪn issue similar to that of the internal hard disk's system, when a third-party disk
To see if some basic issue in the drive's software function could be repaired by it?
Hoping to have a stable update that fixes at least this bug of external disks being disconnected.Have you tried using Disk Utility's 'repair disk' function on the LaCie external drive
Have Apple been bought by Microsoft? It looks like so or maybe not because my (horrible) Windows machine which serves only to display Google Analytics live tracking has kept working like a mac (weird)!Ĭomment: in a short period of days, macOS Big Sur has been updated for bug fixes with a frequency that reminds me of Windows in the '90s!! The only thing missing is "the blue screen"!.At some stage I had to force shutdown "a la Windows" and back to start the system again.Īfter two forced shutdowns the system recovered, yet, the external disk is being disconnected automatically after this update.Had to restart the or four times to get the MacBookPro running as expected (as before), and even then, some apps even the finder keeps crashing and becomes irresponsive.which is not, otherwise the disk would not keep disconnecting! Checking First Aid on DiskUtility it runs and the result is everything ok.A pop-up message that says that the disk was not ejected properly when I did nothing to eject or disconnect the disk. My external disk WD 1TB keeps disconnecting.I've just updated to macOS Big Sur 11.5.2 and a bunch of issues started happening: