Hello Dan,
To answer your question, yes it does make sense because FireWire
supplies both power and communications to the connector. But Ward's
suggestion is the best for determining where to start with diagnosing
problems with it.
Jerry
On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 06:02 PM, Dan Crutcher wrote:
> 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
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