A friend of mine recently had two daisy chained LaCie hard drives fail on him.  Unfortunately, one was backing up the other.  He bought a new LaCie and plugged it in and copied a recent job that he was prepping for delivery over to the new drive.  Then his computer gave up the ghost and shut down for good.  He bought a new computer, plugged in the hard drives and hoped for the best - but none of them would mount - including his brand new LaCie.  Before shelling out a couple of thousand bucks for hard drive recovery, he brought the drives to the Image Mechanics bat cave studio for us to take a crack at.