Details for the 1,250$ Seagate Flush.
Mac Pro - 2.66GHZ 7 Gigs Ram
Burly 5 Bay Box  - JOBD
Sonnet D500P Box  - JOBD
Burly 1 Bay Box
Sonnet E4P card
8X  1.5TB Seagate drives with bad serials numbers, but alleged ok/or 'marginal' firmware, ie> CC1H

Problem: All drives in the Burly or Sonnet Box will autodismount from the desktop after 15 minutes.

Attempts to fix: Repair permissions. Re-seat E4P card in Mac Pro. Dust internals of Mac Pro, Burly, and Sonnet Boxes. Power on and off the box. Switch e-sata cables.
I even put an old 400Gig drive in the MacPro, and installed a new OSX on the drive, and.....all the box drives dismount.  Contacted Sonnet. Contacted MacGurus.
Sonnet says not a problem with their card or box.  MacGurus says they have mixed results with the alleged 'ok' CC1H firmware.

Puzzle.  The 1.5 Seagate drives will stay mounted in a single Burly box.  But, this is consistent with reports of the Seagate drives having problems in multi
bay boxs, either as JOBD or RAID.

Future attempts at remedies:  Call Seagate (I now call them SeaCrap).  I expect they will claim the CC1H firmware is ok.
Contact Amazon, and see what the chances are of getting money back after I sat on these drives for 6 months.

Probable outcome? Stuck with 1,250$ of SeaCrap. 

Ultimate Solution? Put the drives in a new Toyota, with Tiger Woods driving, and tell them all to hit the road.

In this economy, what a horrendous bummer.  About 6 months ago, I bought 8 1.5 TB seagate drives, and 2 1TB drives, for about 1,250$.  I had not had time to install them
until now.  I thought I was safe, as they all have the CC1H firmware, which Seagate CLAIMS are ok.  But, guess what?  They are not.  Any of these drives in my Burly or Sonnet JOBD drives will autodismount after 15 minutes.  Complete waste. 

The reviews on the 2TB Seagate drives are awful, 50% failure rate.  Seagate and Toyota must be owned by the same company. 

Thanks Seagate. 

I am having a bit of an issue trying to find the right thread here for Seagate firmware issues,
so I'll try here.  I am having the problem that many with the 1.5tb drives have, of freezing and
dismounting from the desktop.  I have the bad number drives: ST31500341AS, but....the drives
say they have the CC1H firmware, which according to the Seagate website are ok as far as
firmware, and that if I were to run the firmware update, it would disable the drives. 

Am wondering if anyone has bad drives that have the CC1H firmware, but are STILL having
trouble with the drives.

Called Seagate, but of course, this is a 'company holiday' and they are closed.

Brian

Now the culprit may be the 'new' Seagate 1.5TB drives that I bought
(sadly, 1,000$ of what may turn out to be useless bricks).  These
are the 1.5 TB models that are notorious for freezing and failing.
Some online say a 35% fail rate.  The ST31500341AS models.

I think there is info. on this forum about this problem.
Any links would be helpful.
Brian

Ok, this is frustrating.
Thought the problem with the drives in external boxes (Burly and Sonnet) dropping
from the desktop (dismounting), after 15 minutes was due to a poor power supply with the
drive boxes.  The Sonnet box has only an 80W power supply, so I stopped using that box,
and just the Burly, which has a 300W source. Now the Burly is dropping the drives as well.

Only changes to the Burly 5 bay box was adding a Seagate 1.5 7200rpm drive.  I know there
was an issue with some Seagate drives, but would that cause the whole set of drives to drop?
Tried: repairing permissions. Restarting. Updated drivers for boxes. Took boxes apart and dusted
them out.  Switched cables.  Powered on and off the drive boxes and Mac Pro.

How to figure this one out? 

I had some e-mail with Neal at Sonnet, and he says that this unit has an 80W power supply,
and the new ones have 220W.  He claims the power supply must be tanking.  For 150$ I can
upgrade the power.  I think I'll just stay with the 5 Bay Burly box.  It's got a 300W supply
all ready, plus each tray is fan cooled, as well as a master fan.  Don't think one can
beat the Burly boxes. 

I have:
Sonnet D5000P e-sata drive box - 5 bay, and a
Burly box with 5 bays, all
connected to a Sonnet E4P
esata card inside a Mac Pro.

The Burly drives are fine, but recently the Sonnet box drives
all dismount from the desktop after 15 minutes or so. 
I cleaned out the box, changed cables, powered down and up,
reset the card, and reapaired permissions.

Any ideas?
Thanks,
Brian

Hi John,
not quite sure what you mean by importing it into another catalog?
Do you mean taking the recovered files/thumbnails and dropping those
on another/new catalog?   If so, I could try it, but if the catalog structure
is not there in the recovered files, it would seem unlikely to have it show
up in a new catalog.  Maybe worth a shot.
Brian

Just opened the back up file, and same thing.  "Expressions media 2 has detected an error in
the catalog and is attempting to recover it.' 

It will recover for another 8 hours, and then I will still be missing the catalog set data, which
is the most critical. 

?
Brian

Had an expressions media catalog.  About 55,000 images.
Went to open it.  Expressions said it had issues, and would
try to automatically rebuild it.  Took 8 hours.  When rebuilt,
only 50,000 of 55,000 images there.  All catalog set data gone.

? Any way to get the catalog hierachy back?  Anyway to
know what caused it? 

Have not get tried to open a backup file done through Chronosync.

Brian

After a week of use, I am still happy with the monitor.
Of course, being able to theoretically see 114% of the Adobe RGB gamut,
and theoretically 25% more than I WAS seeing on a CRT sort of complicates
things.  All the images that looked good on the CRT now look like they have
a reddish cast to the shadows. 

Was that there, and I could not see it?  And then this all makes me want to know
more about color management besides using an eye1 monitor device.  And of
course, I don't have time to learn that. 

Overall, the reds just seem to be screaming, almost cartoonish when looking at files
corrected on a crt.  I will have to edit and adjust some new work on the LED LCD, and
see what happens in print. 

Still, to see the subtley of the shadow detail, and see, as far as I can tell, 100% accurate
sharpness, is quite something. 

In PS 4/CS 4, I absolutely cannot stand how PS puts all the open files in tabs.
Yep, I go to Arrange, and Float All in Windows,  and then I save that workspace,
but when I open PS again, the files go back to tabs.  How do I permanently have
PS put all images as separate floating boxes, not in a tab?

Brian S

Last thing.  I have no comparison to the famed Eizo monitors, so I can't say how
this guy compares.  I don't think the Eizo is using LED tech, if that makes a difference.
I do know the prices for those Eizo's is very high.  2,000$ or more was just too much.
More later as I continue to use the LaCie. 

Is it possible to marry one's LED LCD monitor?
Brian

I received the new LaCie 720 LED LCD monitor today, the 20 inch version with the advanced software,
for 1,300$.  20 inches is fine, as I am using it next to my old 23" Apple Cinema display.  Plus,
the 20" model rotates to portrait view, which the other larger models do not.  Plus of course, it was
cheaper than the larger versions. 

It comes with a nice hood, has good adjustments to height and angle, and outstanding viewing angle.
I had an existing Gretage Macbeth eye1 calibrator, which is the same as the LaCie version.  I uninstalled
the Eye One software, and put in the LaCie version.  It took a bit to learn the screen display buttons, but once
I got it calibrated.....all I can say is wow.

I'm seeing SO much more than before with the old Sony CRT.  It's almost startling.  But, it's all accurate,
and the CRT just could not handle the gamut.  It's also nice to have the display fill up the screen edge to
edge instead of the CRT's smaller view. 

The sharpness is just right.  Not crunchy and harsh like an Apple display, but smooth and right on, and not
soft like a CRT. 

I just checked some more RAW files, and all I can say now is....seeing as how I have no girlfriend....
I may be in love.  I have to name her.....I like 'S' names...maybe Sammy. 

Anyway, the next step would be to run some prints on my Epson 3800 with ColorBurst RIP and see
how she looks in print.   I don't quite understand what the extra couple hundred bucks I paid for some
advanced software calibration that was installed, but that's the way it came from Mac Mall.

I have to conclude by saying that first impressions are stellar, and I am quite happy I made the switch.
The 45 pound Sony CRT is now out on the deck, waiting to be disposed of.

Brian and Sammy