Thanks Daniel, I have followed your instructions and it now appears to be working. the External drive/s are showing on the desktop and in Disk Utility.
The Time Machine backups ceased in February right after the system upgrade to Catalina and a misterious message appeared stating the system no longer supported firewire and to connect external drives via USB 3. I left everything as was until recently and decided to re-connect Time Machine. Will see how it goes now and advise on the results. Regards John Thompson [email protected] > On 15 Jun 2020, at 8:14 am, Daniel Kerr <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi John > > > As far as I’m aware Catalina does still work with Firewire. The only thing > they “disabled” is that you can’t boot from a Firewire device anymore. > But you can still access Firewire drives if you have a Firewire (or similar) > port. > One thing I would try first is to unplug all the cables and connectors from > the Firewire drive and the iMac. Leave everything unplug for a few minutes. > Then restart the computer. > After restart, plug the cables back in and then see if the drive mounts again. > > You could also check in Disk Utility to see if it sees the drive at all. If > it’s greyed out, it may just need clicked on to “Mount”. > If no success with that, you could try an SMC reset on the Mac mini. Then see > if the drives show up again. > > Also, did you have any other computers you can check it on as well and see if > it loads at all? That will show if it’s the computer or the drive is the > issue. > > Hope something there helps. > Kind regards > Daniel > > Sent from my iPhone XS > > --- > Daniel Kerr > MacWizardry > > Phone: 0414 795 960 > Email: <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> > Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> > > > **For everything Apple** > > NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and > as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. > Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or > accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this > email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the > author be requested. > >> On 14 Jun 2020, at 9:41 am, John Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Maybe Peter H. or Daniel Kerr could assist in this one. >> >> For quite a number of years I have been using a Voyager Q External drive, >> purchased from Daniel, for my Backup and Time Machine, connected to my Mac >> Mini (Late 2014) via Thunderbolt to firewire cable. This has worked fine >> until my upgrade to Catalina which no longer supports Firewire and now >> requires USB 3 connectivity. >> >> Could you please advise the cableing I would require and the port/s >> available on the Mac Mini for same. >> >> Kind Regartds >> >> >> John Thompson >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
