Hello, this might be kind of 'left field-ish', but do you have your finder preferences set to NOT show external hard drives on your desktop? Or maybe the pref's were corrupted to work that way. Have you checked in Disk Utility whether it shows in there? Is there anything showing up on the firewire bus in System Profiler? With the drive being a OWC unit, I would think it quite improbable that it's the firewire controller chips being 'funky' and mucking things up for you - I had a cheap flea-bay fw/usb housing that gave a g4 iBook & a g3 Blue&White fits once upon a time. (Same housing got along fairly well with my G4 MIni's FireWire though.) With your ibooks' Target Disk Mode functioning over the same firewire jacks in the G3 iBook, I lends credence to it not being a failed jack causing the issue - not 100% definitive, but quite indicative in my eyes.
Quite the puzzle you're coping with, isn't it! Richard On Aug 22, 7:28 pm, [email protected] wrote: > Hiya Listers, > > Could any of you please kindly tell me what to do to get a new external > Firewire drive to show up on the desktop of a G3 iBook? > > Yes, the external drive is good, and so are the Firewire cables -- the > external drive shows up fine on my G4 Quicksilver's desktop with either > of my two Firewire cables. Also, if I start the iBook in target disk > mode (connected to the external HD), its HD appears on the Quicksilver's > desktop -- which is nice/shows the Firewire equipment is good, but I > need for the Firewire drive icon to appear on the iBook's desktop like > it does on the Quicksilver, it's "easier" for my backwards brain to move > data that way. > > The iBook is a G3/800. The external HD is an OWC Mercury Elite 500 GB, > currently in 2 partitions (may change this to 3 or 4 once I get this > iBook business straightened out). > > Thanks so much, > > ~Yersinia. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
