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Old 7th August 2006   #20
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Originally Posted by Curve Dominant View Post
I admit I have absolutely no idea if this was the source of your problem or not:

With the OWC Mercury Elite drives, you MUST drag the drive icon into the Trash before powering down and/or unplugging the drive. Failure to do so will result in damage to the drive enclosure, and the drive will go south.
We have very clear rules at our studio about unmounting firewire drives. It's certainly possible that someone disconnected without dragging to the trash, or that a cable was disconnected unintentionally, but I don't think that was the problem in either case (hmm, pretty good pun there).
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