My 4Big Quadra has 8 TB of data in it. Is configured as a RAID 0 mode. iMac is running Yosemite version 10.10.5. Has been running flawlessly for over a year. Last night rebooted my iMac and when everything came back up the iMac no longer recognized or showed the Quadra as an available drive. Its displaying a solid blue light in the front and 4 blue flashing lights in the rear. I have tried reseating the drives, switching computers from the iMac to a MacBook Pro, changing cables (e.g. different FireWire 800's, different power sources). No change.
I have in my office two other similar 4Big Quadra drives. They are running fine. The alternate power sources and cables came from the other two, just for testing purposes. No change. If I swap out the (4) drives from the troubled Quadra with one of my other Quadra's, my iMac sees it as a new drive and asks if I want to reinitialize it. Which tells me that the drives themselves appear to be ok, just not in their original Quadra.
I was on the phone with LaCie Support for more than an hour. They could not provide a solution. I asked if the problem might be with the controller? They said that it could possibly be that but they don't sell empty Quadra's without drives.
Any suggestions?
I have in my office two other similar 4Big Quadra drives. They are running fine. The alternate power sources and cables came from the other two, just for testing purposes. No change. If I swap out the (4) drives from the troubled Quadra with one of my other Quadra's, my iMac sees it as a new drive and asks if I want to reinitialize it. Which tells me that the drives themselves appear to be ok, just not in their original Quadra.
I was on the phone with LaCie Support for more than an hour. They could not provide a solution. I asked if the problem might be with the controller? They said that it could possibly be that but they don't sell empty Quadra's without drives.
Any suggestions?
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram