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anyone dealing with these drives at all? Otherworld Computing sells them for $159 I think but we bought 3 of them and I can't get them to work with our dual 2.5 GHz PPC G5, i can put them in a firewire chassis and format them OK and format and copy all our data on it but when I put them in the G5 they don't want to mount or format or anything.

After booting over and over sometimes they mount for a minute and then go away when I try to open them or look at them in disk utility, they will unmount or freeze up.

Supposedly there is a firmware update for these, I have sent my email request to Seagate but now am waiting for the reply, from what I can tell this firmware update has fixed the problem for some people and for other people it has fixed the problem but made the drive slower, has anybody had any luck with these or should I just bite the bullet and return them and get something else?

Any recommendations? I want a really big drive for our main SATA record drive as we have 3 engineers and a lot of sessions and if I could have a 1.5 TB internal and a 1.5 TB external Firewire backup drive that would be awesome.

OWC recommended we get the 1.0 TB firewire drives which is a Hitachi DeathStar insteady of the 1.5 externals because they have had some problems with those, but they didn't mention anything about the 1.5 internals being a problem. Also, supposedly the problems are limited to OSX and Linux users on PPC machines, apparently they work great on intel machines. but it works great so far and we have 750 GB Seagate firewire drives hooked up as well which pretty much takes care of our necessary backup space. Thanks in advance for any input!