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It is listed as suitable for the Porsch drives, but the model number on your current unit should tell if it's the right one.
At 12V 3A it is rated higher than the common 12V 2A which is a common rating for hard drive power adapters, and also supplies 5V. These may be required for your drive.
The site has other LaCie power adapters if the model number does not match.
hi. maybe problem is caused by your Power supply. so i recommend you to do these: 1- remove the main hard drive and only connect "250GB lacie porsche hard drive". and see is it recognized or not. 2- go to the bios (with pressing "delete key" at start of turning on) and navigate to power center. then enable power saving mode.
Hello,
your drive can be used with any D2 or Big Disk power supply as well as some LaCie Porsche power supplies (you need to make sure the connector is the same).
Searching for LaCie Power supply on eBay will give you a few hits that match your needs.
Regards,
Sounds like the hard drive in the Lacie has fauled.
To test the hard drive, remove it and connect it to an USB hard drive adapter and connect it to a working computer's USB port. If it deosn't detect it as an external drive and you connot open folders and files then it is faulty.
You can install a new hard drive in the Lacie and then format in FAT32.
We have a few of these Lacie Design by F.A. Porsche 500GB drives in our office. Our editor's drive stop working this morning (was fine the day before) and had all her files backed up from the last three years on it and was making a very soft clicking sound. After taking the whole thing apart and trying drive in another F.A. Porsche caddy with no success, we tried a different power supply hey presto it started up no problems. My drive that suddenly stop working earlier in the year we tried a power supply from a external Lacie DVD Writer and again drive is working. Just to make sure tried the original power supply and would not mount. So if your hard drive stops working it maybe the power supply rather the the hard drive.
You may be able to resolder the USB port, maybe an electronics savy
friend with a soldering iron will help you with this. Disassemble it and check if the traces and tabs of the usb port are still intact. If they are it can definitely be soldered. Or you can just put the HDD in a new enclosure, they are dirt cheap. If you want somebody else to do it for
you there are services like Data Recovery NYC. Also there is good informaation on logic board repairs on hddguru.com.
Both power adaptors are 4 pin, ITHINK that the Porsche that you have is the same as mine which has the smaller (4 pin DIN) plug
34W power supply.
But check on LaCie's site:
http://www.lacie.com/asia/products/product.htm?pid=10857
Hope this helps.
Chris
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