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Panther's FireWire Data Loss Problem.

[Presto]

I've got a LaCie FW400 80G external drive. I use OS9.2 on the ibook and OSX 3.4 on my emac and my DSL Freebox keeps me on the internet (and provides free phoning to national numbers and 3 cents/min to New Zealand. Do you get that too? I'm in France - oops off topic).

I downloaded the LaCie Update Tool (OSX) and ran it with the FW400 drive on and loaded. The tool said I didn't need an update so I didn't get one.

I unloaded the FW drive before closing the update app and immediately got a "Fatal" message concerning the drive.

Oops! I thought I'd buggered it.

I switched the drive off and on again. There it was again with everything in. Oof!

I decided to do it all again but this time following the LaCie instructions to the letter (almost). I unplugged everything other than the FW drive and ethernet, and tried to run the update app.

Damn! The keyboard and mouse didn't answer now. Oh yes, I had unplugged them. Oof!

Then I wrote all this in here and was just going to click on 'add reply' when a pop up add came on screen. I closed the window. Oops! It wasn't a pop up so I'd lost my reply to you.

Still, my soft disk memory had retained the jist so I've now retyped it.

I'd unplugged ethernet so no ads would replace my reply screen, but I clicked on Add Reply before plugging in again. The button went grey so I plugged in but it stayed grey. I thus clicked on the http thing up the top thinking it would send of the reply but it just went to the forums list. Oops, I'd lost the reply again.

No, this time I'd copied it. Ooof!

Conclusion: my brain, heart and FW drive are still intact and I'm finally getting this reply off.

Still, I have a sneaky feeling I should update, and brave the unknown.