On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Yersinia <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > He showed up over Valentine's weekend with a working FW cable he had just > used himself on his own equipment and, just in case, a four port USB hub. > No go on the FW with my machine, in either port -- which means I have no > more Firewire unless or until I get another enclosure. And the worse part > of the brain death - AGAIN it didn't occur to me to think of the iBook. > If only I had, it wouldn't have taken me two days and two nights to do a > massive data transfer to the iBook totally with USB flash drives. I'd > have done my iBook nuke-and-pave while he was here with the good FW cable > and moved all the stuff into the iBook straight out of the G4 with FW > Target Disk Mode! Thank goodness for the USB hub though -- at least now > I can have my external HD and BOTH flash drives plugged in simultaneously > when needed. That helps a little anyway... > > But anyway -- how in the heck is it possible that just shutting down > could have killed the FW port in my enclosure? I never dropped my > external HD or spilled anything on it and when I used to move data from > it into the iBook, I would simply unplug the end that was in the G4's FW > port and plug it into the iBook's FW port...so other than the initial > plugging in (first week of Aug 2007 when I got it), I had never even > touched the enclosure's FW port! Even when we disconnected it from the G4 > after the shutdown (to be able to rearrange the area and get inside the > G4 to make it run the second monitor), we did it from the G4's end. > > :::::sigh::::: > > ~Yersinia. > > ________ > Probably an unlikely cause but did you try cleaning your FW ports with an old toothbrush and alcohol? Also did you try connecting the drive to your BF computer? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml 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/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
