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Hard Drive Halting (was Need Drive)
Name: Spark Date: June 30, 2000 at 10:02:23 Pacific
Comment:
I have a 18GB LaCie Drive connected to my External SCSI - I can save a text file on the drive (using "Save As..." but whenever I try to Copy a file to the drive, it halts up. My MacOS is at 7.5.3 (the minimum for the drive, supposedly.)
Are there any restrictions or conflicts that I'm not aware of?
Name: lifekid Date: July 10, 2000 at 23:13:00 Pacific
Reply:
i've heard of this problem before, although i forgot how to remedy it (sorry). but just for the hell of it, why don't you upgrade to 7.6.1 (it's free) and update the driver for the external drive using apple's "drive setup" utility. you need to download the latest one from apple, it offers more third-party drivers.
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