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Seagate external drive switch turns on but not off

I have a new external disk 400GB for backup. The I/O switch will turn on, but the only way I can shut off the drive is to kill the power. Is this;
a. bad for the disk
b. likely to progress to not being able to turn the disk on.

Thanks for insight.

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Guy Hengel [angelIII / a3]

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cornell256

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It is USB and firewire, but I use firewire for transfer. Looks like that is in the system tray, so that's a great idea.
And i'll do it that way.

What do you think the risk is of the button failing altogether? I don't want to return the drive but I did just buy it so could do so. I'd have to do 15 hours of backups again :&(

Guy Hengel [angelIII / a3]

>What do you think the risk is of the button failing altogether?
what do you mean exactly?
if you "unplug" the drive, it will tell you when done, which will only be the case when all file operations on the disk are completed (ie there are no open files on the disk)

nobus

if a new drive cannot be turned off, i would ask for a warranty replacement. It certainly is not a good sign.

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Lee W, MVP