Ok, I guess all I really needed to do is shut off the G5 and unplug it for 20 minutes. That seems to have revived the ports. Is it possible to have overpowered the firewire bus and shut it down by plugging in 2 external drives (each with it's own AC adapter, none on bus power) and copying a few terabytes worth of backup data?
Cheers, -Hal On Dec 29, 2009, at 10:25 PM, Hal wrote: > Anyone have the experience with their G5 where all 3 of the firewire ports (2 > in back, 1 in front) all stop working? > Even with nothing connected to the firewire ports, when I go into system > profiler, I see "warning: no information is available about firewire devices". > > I'm running 10.5.8 on a quad G5. I had 2 external firewire 800 drives > connected and was copying files from 1 to another (about 800GB of data) when > the drives dropped off and now I get nothing. I also have an Apple cinema > display connected, and had that plugged into the rear FW400 port, to enable > me to use the ports on the display, though I haven't used them in a long time. > > Any help is appreciated. > > -Hal > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
