Hi All,
My name is Alex and I am a digital assistant/photographer/computer monkey/retoucher/builder and whatever else is required of me.
This is my first submission although I regularly benefit from this great pool of knowledge. Forgive me if I am too lengthy in my discription of this problem!
Does anyone suffer from the same hardware problems as this?
We use a Powerbook G4 titanium as our location computer. It is of great use to us and our clients being able to see the shots as soon as they are taken. The only problem is that our computer seems to damage any firewire device that is connected to is sooner or later. I have found this out by trial and error. So far it has killed a Lacie Pocketdrive, a Lacie 120GB D2 hard drive, a Kodak Proback and today a Lexar CF card reader. After the Proback and the 120GB disc went down I smelled a rat and had contacted Apple, who after saying it was all working properly, sent it back untouched. I stamped my foot and after a chat with a lovely Irish girl on the helpline, they agreed to replace the motherboard which includes the firewire circuitry. It ran ok for a while and then the pocketdrive went down. This is being fixed as we speak under warranty. The last straw is the card reader. This piece of kit is as old as the computer itself and has always been well behaved, but today on location with the client standing behind me a, card refused to mount and I had to resort to using the a USB card reader that I always keep handy. I had to blame the massive slowdown in speed on the fact I was using 'economy mode' to save battery power. I have found reports on the web of firewire problems affecting older powerbooks, but none for the 800mhz model. Apple deny the problem. I could buy a firewire PC card, but that would a mains supply and defeat the purpose of a laptop. I reckon that a lot of you will be using similar kit to me so is this a known flaw?These problems have never occurred on my own G4 12" 867 or the studio desktop 867 powermac.
Any thoughts?
Alex Dow
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