At 5:02 AM -0300 09-17-2005, John Christie wrote:
> On Sep 16, 2005, at 10:52 PM, Sovereignty wrote:
>
>> hanks, anything will help at this point. I've pretty much narrowed
>> it down
>> to whatever electronics are in the circuit board in the enclosure.
>
> That seems like an odd conclusion given that it worked on another
> Mac. DId you try a motherboard reset on the iMac. Sometimes the
> Firewire ports on old machines get screwed up and a full reset sets
> them right.
I upped the RAM to 1 GB yesterday, resetting the motherboard via the small
black button. Nothing changed with the DVD burner and Firewire not working.
Both FW ports on the iMac are working with the external FW 120 GB hard
drive -- that's why I've eliminated the iMac hardware.
The neighbour's computer is XP and the drive was able to burn at its higher
speeds in both CD and DVD burns. When the burner is hooked up to the Mac
via its USB 2.0 port to the Mac's USB 1.1 port, it's able to burn CDs at
the 4x highest speed. And about 50% of the time it's also able to Toast
6.1.1 burn a half-full DVD at 2x speed. (Choosing 'Best' or 4x results in
failures.)
However when it's hooked up via Firewire to the Mac (I've been unable to
find another computer locally of any stripe with an external Firewire port)
the burner goes into flashing light mode as it tries to 'mount' itself to
the Mac/as the Mac tries to mount it. Disconnecting the Firewire at the
computer stops all hunting on the burner.
With Andrew's 'DVD Enclosures for Dummies' (even after a good sleep I'm an
idiot) I was able to track down a thread on NCIX dealing with the Prolific
PL3507 combo chipset that needed firmware updates before it would run on OS
X. I still haven't been able to determine which chipset is in this
enclosure, so I'm thinking I should track down just how many chipsets there
are for an external Firewire connection and then download all the firmware
updates to see which one could be accepted by whichever chipset is inside
the enclosure.
... unless someone knows of an app that would conceivably see the external
and give a read-out? I'm left wondering -- *if* there is no such app, how
does anyone really know that their enclosure truly does have the Oxford 911?
Apologies for such a long drawn-out thread. I hope, at the least, that
someone else is learning from my mistakes.
Sov
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