Re: Firewire aggro

[Tony Coult]

The Firewire ports on my iMac DV SE (bought new but not tried with a 
Firewire device till too late) never worked. Until I stuck a new HD in! 
For about ten minutes the LaCie back-up drive showed up. Then the LaCie 
died - it won't work on the G3 Pismo that had previously dealt with it 
fine - and System Profiler showed nothing connected again in the the 
Firewire ports. Since then I've been searching for help and tips. I 
came up with this helpful link:
http://www.hardmac.com/article.php?id=16
Apart from not getting the Open Firmware keys correct (should be 
command-option-O-F), this has allowed me to get the Firewire up and 
running again but only for iPod. Attach a CD burner and it says the 
disk is not readable by OS X. Then the ports die again and although the 
iPod is seen in system profiler (as is the CD burner) nothing shows up 
anywhere. The randomness of all this is maddening!
Tony Coult

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