I don't know if this would help??? But I found something out by accident with my Clamshell iBooks... I bought a graphite and white 466 for parts because I wanted to upgrade my indigo and white 366 to 466 by swapping the motherboard but before I swapped them I got the graphite and white working and when I went to plug in my iPod it would only charge, it wouldn't mount and I thought the firewire port was the problem??? I have 2 Indigo clamshells and they worked great one of them was already upgraded to the 466 board and I wanted to do the other one too!!! So I decided I would live without the firewire port and I swapped them out, low and behold the firewire port worked so I figured it had something to do with the info on my HD that mounted it and when I put the 366 into the graphite and white one it didn't mount... I figured I could only boot my iPod from only 2 or 3 different computers, the only ones it will work in are my 2 clamshells and my Titanium Powerbook... It won't work in my friends clamshell but his iPod does (and his works in one of mine) and it won't work in my daughters clamshell either??? I was thinking Apple did this to protect iTunes and copying music??? So after reading this thread I figured I would share this too!!!
-----Original Message----- >From: Dana Collins <dlcatft...@verizon.net> >Sent: Dec 30, 2009 11:16 PM >To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com >Subject: Re: Firewire ports stop working? - iTunes query > >On 12/30/09 9:56 PM, Dana Collins of dlcatft...@verizon.net sent > >> >> >> >> On 12/30/09 8:18 PM, Stewie de Young of stewies...@hotmail.com sent >> >>> Some pertinent links here >>> http://www.wiebetech.com/whitepapers/FireWirePortFailures.php >>> http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1534543 >>> >>> Stewie >>> >> Thank you for the links, Stevie. Most helpful. >> -Dana > >As a follow up to this, an indirect but related issue - testing my FireWire >ports, I discovered that none of my FW syncing cables (I used with my 3rd >and 4th gen. iPods) worked (I could charge, but not sync). One cable going >bad is anticipated, but all three at once? Reestablishing contact to the FW >ports did not change the non-syncing issue. > >My guess is iTunes 9.x has cut FW syncing support. Can anybody confirm this >suspicion if true? >Thanks, >Dana > > >-- >You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for >those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power >Macs. >The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette >guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml >To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com >For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
