On Dec 30, 2005, at 5:54 AM, Wayne Clodfelter wrote:
You don't mention which firewire card you installed. AFAIK they are
not all equal. Does the one you installed list Mac as a supported
system? (Even some that do are known to be sometimes problematic.)
Firewire is an Apple-invented protocol. ALL FW cards should be Mac
compatible.
There are Beiges that have problems with combo USB/FW cards, usually
the FW works ok, but the USB doesn't.
On Dec 29, 2005, at 10:43 PM, Ron Reames wrote:
I bought an external firewire cd-rw for my son to use with his B&W.
His built-in firewire is dead so last year I put in a 3-port
firewire in an
empty slot.
It's remotely possible that a bad FW card could damage drives, but
the part it could damage would be the firewire interface, which
would have killed the external HDD, too.
The one thing you didn't mention testing was the CD disks...bad disks
can cause this too, check another brand or another box.
Your drive could also be dirty, try a cleaning disk in it.
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Bruce Johnson
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