On Sep 10, 2004, at 2:46 PM, Tom Baker wrote:
This is a G-4 733 running 10.3.5, with three external FireWire drives chained together and plugged into one of the Mac's FW ports. The drives keep randomly disappearing from the desktop. Sometimes none of them show up on startup, while at other times I might see one, or two. To get the missing one(s) back all I have to do is unplug and replug the cables that chain the drives together, or else the one plugged into the Mac (it IS all right to plug and unplug FireWire cables live, isn't it?), but how come I have to do that?
Are these drives externally or bus powered? You might be running at the edge of the bus power limit.
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