. > > I've had similar issues before, with both software and hardware > causes. Hardware is always someone tried to insert a FW400 plug upside- > down, and since FW400 carries power it shorts out the port permanently > and it's dead forever.
Hi Kris: Agreed, but I've still got power to my FW400's - just not data. I could understand if a fuse blows when a plug is mal-inserted - and I thought these fuses are designed to reset (?) - or does the short FUBAR the (FW chip?) so it will not send and receive data? > > The software issue is stranger, and I'm not sure of the cause? If you > boot in verbose, the Firewire bus is initialized as one of the very > first items. It needs to say "S400" for speed rather than "S100". from the console log (since there isn't that much time to focus on and read the verbose boot!) I see the following message appearing twice "kernel FireWire (OHCI) TI ID8025 PCI now active, GUID 000f2e0100001ee8;max speed s800" which I presume is once for the internal FW800, and then again for the PCI card I've just plugged my FireWave in, firstly to the onboard FW800 socket, and then to the PCI card, and it shows up in system profiler both times, and I've just plugged my FireWire speakers in to that and they work nicely.. If > is says "S100" it won't recognize any FW400 devices. I believe a Safe > Boot by holding the Shift key might rebuild System cache files that > could possibly be responsible for this issue? I have tried safe boot and that hasn't resolved it. Otherwise you might try > reinstalling the latest Combo Update and see if that fixes it? I shall go to the Apple site and download it. BTW is it me or has the Apple site s l o w e d d o w n since it's been supplying Lion online? When I was going through the update process on this machine, a file of a mere 80MB was coming down at what felt like dial-up speed, It's now telling me 29 minutes for 759MB. BTW aoplogies for the previous triple post - it was Google wot done it, I only sent it once! -- 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
