The firewire port on my Powerbook G4 (500 Mhz) has quit recognizing devices connected to it.
At first I thought the port might be dead, but I find that when I plug a portable firewire drive into it I can feel the hard drive spinning up -- so I know it's getting power -- but the drive never mounts. Much the same with an iPod. It charges properly when connected to that firewire port, but it never mounts and iTunes cannot find it. (I have tried holding the play-menu/previous-foreward buttons to reset it, but it still doesn't get recognized. And I have connected the iPod to another computer's firewire port and that computer does mount it.) Can a firewire port partially work? Does it make sense that it could provide power to the device but not provide whatever it takes to recognize the device? Dan | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
