Jake Williamson wrote:
> oh joy!
>
> the powerbook (firewire) was more than happy to mount the external 20gig
> lacie firewire drive on friday and now it wont.....
>
> i've gone through the extensions, checked my version of silverlining and
> checked all the other obvious stuff. the drive itself is fine and mounts
> very happily on a g4.
>
> the worrying thing is the firewire bus doesn't show up in the apple system
> profiler or in silverlining. a quick check on the g4 showed the bus was
> available even when nothing was plugged in.
>
> i've tried everything...... could this be in the realm of hardware
> failure???
>
> any suggestions???!!!
>
> cheers,
>
> jake
>
Look on xlr8yourmac.com. Mike Breeden has the same problem. The cure seems to
be to take out the battery for a few hours, than the FireWire ports will be
seen again. But even Mike can't seem to find the location of the battery...
Check his site for more info to follow.
Marc
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