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External drive shows up twice on desktop

I have a Lacie "Big Disk" external drive attached by firewire. It keeps showing up as two drives on my desktop. I've wiped and reformatted the drive, run DiskWarrior, Disk Utility and TechTool Pro and can't seem to resolve the problem. The actual drive mechanism is a Maxtor 6 B200PO and all appropriate drivers are up to date.

I know from other posts that LaCie drives can be problematic, but this seems to be a unique situation that defies the usual repair and diagnosis tools. No tool reports a problem with the drive, but two images keep appearing on the desktop - one a generic orange and white drive icon, the other a LaCie icon. Both seem to contain identical data.

Can anyone help me resolve the problem?

G5 Dual 1.8, Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Oct 10, 2008 7:55 AM

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Oct 28, 2008 8:55 AM in response to Jim Hall1

Hi Jim Hall1;

That enclosure with the two drive was using RAID to make them appear as one to Mac. It sounds like the hardware to implement the RAID quit. IMHO I would not trust that enclosure.

Allan

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Oct 29, 2008 8:56 AM in response to Allan Eckert

Yeah, good advice. Had already reached that conclusion. Time to physically destroy the drives and take them to the e waste dump.

External drive shows up twice on desktop