> I have run Disc Utility on the failed LaCie 500 Drive and it reports, "The > Volume LaCie 500 needs to be repaired. Volume check failed. Error. The > underlying task reported failure upon exit"
I've just had the same thing happen on a friend's iBook. It turned out to be bad RAM, which had slowly degraded. This happens, and seems to result from a static zap at some point which didn't knock out the chip at first but has slowly degraded its performance over time. Try removing all non-Apple (i.e. factory-installed) RAM and running diskutil again. If it gets through the process, put the RAM back in slot-by-slot and repeat the diskutil test until you find the dud. Get, and wear, an anti-static wrist strap. Best regards Paul Ellis Mamatus Limited | http://www.mamatus.com Photography - Interactive Imaging - Apple Macintosh consultancy Tel +44 20 8341 9788 Mobile +44 7930 312554 Member of The Association of Photographers =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
