sls@zodiac.phy.duke.edu (Shelley L. Shostak) (03/29/90)
We have 4 LaCie Cirrus 80 MB drives which are causing us trouble. Whenever the reset button is hit or there's a power interruption the Mac will not boot from the hard drive. The mac finds the disk but cannot mount it. The only way to recover without reinitializing is to run the manufacturer's installer (Silver Lining), try to mount the disk TWICE, and then run Disk First Aid. The installer reports a "Bad Master Directory" which DFA will repair. Then you can boot from the disk again. Has anyone seen this behavior before? Should I try formatting the disk with a different brand of software? Technical support at LaCie was pretty bad. They claimed that the sofware was SUPPOSED to work like that when there is a power failure. Then they had the gall to tell me to REMOVE the reset button. And were left speechless when I asked what one was supposed to do when programming errors caused system bombs!!! GGGrrrrrr!!!!! We are using a MACII, System 6.0.3, Finder 6.1, no non-Apple INITs or CDEVs, no other drives. This drive has a single partition. Right now I wouldn't TAKE one of these drives if they PAID me. I have already spent many hours dealing with people who initialize these disk because of lack of understanding. Shelley -- Shelley L. Shostak (919) 684-8279 Duke University Dept. of Physics sls@zodiac.phy.duke.edu Durham, N.C. 27706