LaCie Porsche 9220 Set-up Problems

[progers]

I'm trying to set up a new Lacie Porsche 9220 external drive on a 1.25Gb Dual Processor G4 Mirrordrive running OS X 10.5.8.
I ran erase, formatting to Mac OS Extended (Journaled). But when I try to set up two partitions using Apple Partition Scheme, Disk Utility returns a fail as follows...
'Partition failed with the error: File system formatter failed'.
Also, before partitioning, whilst erasing, the following warning appeared in Disk Utility....
newfs_hfs: WARNING: wrapper option ignored since volume size > 256GB

The DU Log is as follows...

2013-01-19 23:14:03 +0000: Disk Utility started.

2013-01-19 23:17:26 +0000: Preparing to erase : “disk2s10”
2013-01-19 23:17:26 +0000: Partition Scheme: Apple Partition Map
2013-01-19 23:17:26 +0000: 1 volume will be erased
2013-01-19 23:17:26 +0000: Name : “disk2s10”
2013-01-19 23:17:26 +0000: Size : 465.6 GB
2013-01-19 23:17:26 +0000: Filesystem : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)

2013-01-19 23:17:26 +0000: newfs_hfs: WARNING: wrapper option ignored since volume size > 256GB

2013-01-19 23:19:49 +0000: Initialized /dev/rdisk2s10 as a 466 GB HFS Plus volume with a 40960k journal

2013-01-19 23:19:49 +0000: Mounting disk.
2013-01-19 23:20:50 +0000: Could not mount disk2s10 with name disk2s10 after erase
2013-01-19 23:20:50 +0000: Erase complete.
2013-01-19 23:20:50 +0000:
2013-01-19 23:24:17 +0000: Preparing to partition disk: “ST950032 5AS Media”
2013-01-19 23:24:17 +0000: Partition Scheme: Apple Partition Map
2013-01-19 23:24:17 +0000: 2 volumes will be created
2013-01-19 23:24:17 +0000:
2013-01-19 23:24:17 +0000: Partition 1
2013-01-19 23:24:17 +0000: Name : “Boot”
2013-01-19 23:24:17 +0000: Size : 15 GB
2013-01-19 23:24:17 +0000: Filesystem : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
2013-01-19 23:24:17 +0000:
2013-01-19 23:24:17 +0000: Partition 2
2013-01-19 23:24:17 +0000: Name : “Repository”
2013-01-19 23:24:17 +0000: Size : 450.8 GB
2013-01-19 23:24:17 +0000: Filesystem : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
2013-01-19 23:24:17 +0000:
2013-01-19 23:24:17 +0000: Creating partition map.
2013-01-19 23:24:23 +0000: Formatting disk2s5 as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with name Repository.
2013-01-19 23:26:31 +0000: Partition failed for disk disk2s5 File system formatter failed.
2013-01-19 23:26:32 +0000: Formatting disk2s3 as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with name Boot.
2013-01-19 23:27:22 +0000: Partition failed for disk (null) File system formatter failed.
2013-01-19 23:27:22 +0000: Partition failed for disk (null) File system formatter failed.
2013-01-19 23:27:22 +0000: Partition complete.
2013-01-19 23:27:22 +0000:
2013-01-19 23:27:52 +0000: Eject of “disk2” failed
2013-01-19 23:28:13 +0000: Unmount of “disk2” failed

After all of this the drive/s unmounted and when it returned, the LaCie icon had been replaced by a generic system icon.

I'm really hoping someone recognises something, anything in all of this...?
Thanks

 

[oldscribe]

Hi,

I'm trying to set up a new Lacie Porsche 9220 external drive on a 1.25Gb Dual Processor G4 Mirrordrive running OS X 10.5.8

I might be wrong but the Lacie Porsche 9220 external drive needs to be connected to a USB 3.0 host port.
And far as I remember the G4 shipped with two USB 2.0 ports at up to 480 Mbps each.

 

[Cory Cooper]

That LaCie drive is USB 2.0 compatible.

I would try to partition it into two partitions. May be having trouble with a 500 GB HD.

C

 

[oldscribe]

Hi CC,

Thanks for correcting me, I was thinking of the P 9220 but see that will go back to USB 2.0 as well.

 

[progers]

Thanks oldscribe & Cory Cooper.
You may actually have been closer than first appears... the thing is that this old G4 is in fact USB 1.1. I was aware of this at purchase, but the situation is that the drive was intended to use with a new iMac which I am waiting for at present, due in a week or so. However in the meantime, I have had a very pressing need for some immediate space, right now with this old set-up, and believed that while the USB 1.1 might render it insufferably slow, that it wouldn't actually malfunction.
Seems I was wrong, was I? If so, why should that be so, given that USB is backward compatible - I am wondering...?

 

[Cory Cooper]

Now that I think of it, you're right. USB 2.0 was introduced with the G5.

Have you tried the smaller partitions?

C

 

[oldscribe]

I am 100% sure that you can not upgrade the existing ports, but you can install a PCI card with USB 2.0 ports or Firewire 800 ports in any of the Power Mac G4 models.

Well 99.9% sure

 

[progers]

Yes, I have had that in the back of my mind, but don't really feel inclined to lay out for PCi card with a new machine not too far away. Hopefully.
But thanks very much anyway - really appreciate your input.

 

[oldscribe]

One thing you could do is wait until you get your new Mac, then get a FW cable and just use the migrate route.