Lacie not seen

[stevemcm1]

Hi and thanks for any ideas,

I've had a 1TB Lacie rugged HD for about a year and it works fine with my MacBook Pro and my wife's MacBook. Just bought a Mac Mini and... the mini doesn't see it. I've tried the Firewire and USB connection, switching everything on and off very carefully - nothing seen. Nothing comes up in 'about this mac' or disk utility.

Once it's plugged back into the laptops, no problem.

Just for kicks I tried accessing it on the mini through wifi, whilst attached to the laptops - that's doable. But not particularly helpful.

Cheers for your thoughts.

 

[MacForScience]

Is the drive bus powered?

Have you tried any other peripherals on the Mini's ports?

Can you hear the drive spin up when you plug it in?

Cheers

 

[stevemcm1]

Thanks for the reply and sorry for delay - work is busy!

>Is the drive bus powered?

It's got its own power.

>Have you tried any other peripherals on the Mini's ports?

Yep - plenty. Everything else fine.

>Can you hear the drive spin up when you plug it in?

Yep, and it lights up too.

To continue: I took it to a genius instore couple of days ago. I showed it working on my macbook pro. He tried it on his macbook pro and it was not seen. He fiddled around for a while, got another genius over. Finally, none of us could work it out.

So that's about it really. I guess I can keep using it with my macbook pro and wife's macbook. I'll use something else with the mini.

Unless anyone's got any other ideas?

Cheers