I was working happily, listening to Melanie’s Estate Sale at a low volume from my MacBook Pro’s speakers when the sound went out with a sharp but not loud “pop.” Whoah. This sucks. Now I can’t get sound out of my speakers. Gonna have to bring this back to Apple. What a waste of time.
Update: I turned the MBP off, removed the battery and power cable and let it sit a while. When I brought it back up, there was sound. Yay!
My G-Drive 500GB Mini Triple arrived via UPS a few minutes ago. Yeah!
It came with three cables: 4-pin USB, FireWire 400 and, as a lovely surprise, FireWire 800! I’m transferring the data from my read-only-mounted Passport 250GB to it right now. I’m excited.
The big surprise was that this little drive came with a nice carrying case. What a treat.
Returned from our trip today. Equipment was unplugged and off while we were gone.
First attempt to write to Passport 250GB, using iTunes, gave a message that nothing could be written to the drive. Unmounted fine. Mount gave me a warning that it was going to be mounted read-only so I could get my data off and that I should reformat it. Come on.
I ordered a replacement drive immediately, a G-Drive Mini Triple 500GB with overnight shipping from Amazon.com. I’m tired of screwing with this Passport drive — this is a replacement for the drive as it had a total failure once. And this replacement was obviously used when I received it, at least the enclosure.
