Booting from backup?

[giantrobot]

Originally Posted by dnanian

We've had weird reports from some users very similar to yours. According to LaCie technical support, formatting a Porsche Design unit without journaling might help. Could it be that one of your drives is journaled, and the other is not?

hmm. both drives are (were) journaled. it looks like either way i'm just going to have to restore to a new drive. at least i've got my data, thanks to you guys!