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From: insightinmind <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, 18 December, 2008 8:28:54 PM
Subject: Re: Anyone know anything about IOPCI2PCIBridge issues?
On Dec 18, 2008, at 2:15 PM, nestamicky wrote:
insightinmind wrote:
On Dec 18, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Dec 17, 2008, at 9:00 PM, insightinmind wrote:
20:59:17 M-Å-S configd[14]: InterfaceNamer: PowerMac3,5/MacRISC2PE/
p...@f2000000/AppleMacRiscPCI/pci-bri...@13/IOPCI2PCIBridge/
firew...@1/
AppleFWOHCI/IOFireWireController/IOFireWireLocalNode [1]
This is waiting on a Firewire device, either the FW interface in the
Sonnet card, or an external device that's acting up.
If a onboard FW connected external FW HD is not turned on, could it
still cause problems? The power supply to it is on, but the drive is
not on.
I will say yes. Although the Firewire unit is not turned on, as long as it is
connected juice flows through it. And I think this is causing the machine to
think it ought to be using it. Obviously it cant because there is not enough
power from the unit.
Haven't run enough tests, as they are mostly Restarts and Cold Boots ... but I
have unplugged the external OWC Elite 911 bridged FW drive from the onboard FW
port ... no problems thus far like before.
I saw on Apple's Discussions (once I found Discussions again ... someone
redesigned their site ... again) that several people are having trouble with
external FW drives they hadn't had problems with before under 10.5.6.
New design for FW under 10.5.6? Anywhere we can go to see what's actually being
done under the hood?
Coupled with the IOPCI2PCIBridge indicating FW ... I suspect my drive being
partially connected / powered is a prime candidate for being a troublemaker.
Funny ... when connected to the Mac, but not the wall wart power supply, the
power up lite comes on if I turn on the switch, but the disk won't mount on the
Desktop of course because its not spinning. Perhaps with the wall wart on, and
the drive off, it now thinks its supposed to be there? but isn't.
Testing continues ...
Bill Connelly________________________________________________
Bill,
I use an external 120GB Formac firewire portable drive for backup.
I use SuperDuper to do an daily incremental of my Dual 2.5G5 at work, so its
disk is permanently cloned, and each night, I copy the "Work" folder to the HD
of my own dual 2.0G5 at home.
The drive has no external power supply, and I have no trouble running files
from it or even booting from it.
Ted
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