Dan, Check to see that Apple System Profiler sees your firewire ports. If it does, you more than likely have a software issue.
Ward > 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>. | 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>.
