Multiple Clone Attempts Failed

[rob123]

Originally Posted by dnanian

It certainly sounds like the Iomega drive is failing, or FireWire is having trouble. Have you tried simplifying your devices to just the drive, switching cables, power cycling the drive or using USB instead of FireWire (or vice versa)?

Thanks for the quick response. It's actually connected through the USB port. This Iomega drive is not detected through Firewire on the new Imacs for some reason. Apple is aware of the issue, and I'm hoping for a fix in the near future. They tell me a firewire hub will work, but I haven't tried that. Until then, USB 2.0 is all I've got.

It's discouraging to think the drive might be failing. It's less than 1 year old, though I have been far from impressed by its performance. I haven't tried different cables, mainly because I only have 1 cable in the house that's compatable. My thought is that something happened during that initial clone attempt that threw this thing out of whack. As far as power cycling goes, I have done that a few times. The drive becomes recognized after powering it up, but as soon as I begin a new backup it unmounts during the process. On my most recent attempt, it happened about 45 minutes into the backup. The drive just disappears from my desktop, and is not recognized in disk utility.