[dnanian]

We're getting conflicting reports about the Porsche Design units. Some people are having no problems, some are having weird issues.

LaCie claims that the drive shouldn't be used with Journaling, and that helped one user, so you might want to give that a shot.

I'd also suggest trying to install OSX to it directly, before doing a backup, to see it it'll boot that way. If so, the backup should boot too.

Hope that helps...