thanks for the suggestion Nick. Unfortunately the drive only operates on firewire 800 and/or usb. I'm going to buy a new firewire 800 cable tonight. hopefully that will cure it.
Jonathan Brady Photographer tel: +44(0) 7931 541 489 web: www.jonathanbrady.net email: [email protected], [email protected] On 12 Jan 2009, at 16:37, Nicholas Holt wrote: > > Have you tried connecting the ext drive via the Firewire 400 which > obviously is working? > Only thing I can think of. > Nick > On 11 Jan 2009, at 21:40, Jonathan Brady wrote: > >> >> hey there. small problem with firewire seems to be occurring. i >> have >> a western digital firewire/mini usb external hard drive which i have >> connected to my imac with a firewire 800 cable - not daisy chained. >> up until today , the drive has been working fine with my imac. >> however, now the drive is not being seen by the imac when the >> firewire >> cable is connected. if i turn off the drive, unplug the firewire and >> then plug in the drive using mini usb it operates properly albeit >> at a >> much slower rate given the connection. i know this could mean i just >> need to replace the firewire cable but is there anything else >> mysterious it could be? I have unplugged and turned off the drive >> umpteen times with different variations of order in terms of the >> connection of the firewire cable but it doesn't seem to make any >> difference. apple system profiler doesn't see the drive but does see >> my firewire lacie speakers which are connected via the 400 port. any >> suggestions or is it troubleshooting time? >> >> Jonathan Brady >> Photographer >> tel: +44(0) 7931 541 489 >> web: www.jonathanbrady.net >> email: [email protected], [email protected] >> >> >> >> >> >>> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
