I had the same problem with a Seagate external drive, could read it, but writing to it would fail. Even tried SpinRite on it, let it read the whole drive, no problems. Formatted the drive copied everything back to it, from a backup. (This was not a time-machine vault). Everything copied but a couple of days latter it failed again. Ran the Seagate utilities on it and it reported a bad drive. Have not yet seen about sending it in, right now it is being used as a "Offsite backup". Not sure what I will end up doing with the drive.
(it was a real pain as it was a 3TB FW800 Drive, and at least locally I cannot get those anymore. But, as the controller pops off, I bought a USB3 one, swapped controllers, and now have my extra backup working.) Robert On Apr 23, 2013, at 9:52 PM, Kevin Callahan <kc...@mac.com> wrote: > This has happened on a couple of Seagate drives on various machines of mine > (MBPro, DUAL QUAD) .. and more recently, on my iMac 27 with a brand new 3T > Mini Stack. > (3rd time in less than 3 months). > > <PastedGraphic-1.png> > > In fact, it happened 3 days ago. I reformatted, created a brand new backup. > Now tonight, once again. > > Clues as to what causes this? > > K > > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
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