Hi John
As far as I’m aware Catalina does still work with Firewire. The only thing they “disabled” is that you can’t boot from a Firewire device anymore. But you can still access Firewire drives if you have a Firewire (or similar) port. One thing I would try first is to unplug all the cables and connectors from the Firewire drive and the iMac. Leave everything unplug for a few minutes. Then restart the computer. After restart, plug the cables back in and then see if the drive mounts again. You could also check in Disk Utility to see if it sees the drive at all. If it’s greyed out, it may just need clicked on to “Mount”. If no success with that, you could try an SMC reset on the Mac mini. Then see if the drives show up again. Also, did you have any other computers you can check it on as well and see if it loads at all? That will show if it’s the computer or the drive is the issue. Hope something there helps. Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone XS --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> **For everything Apple** NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the author be requested. > On 14 Jun 2020, at 9:41 am, John Thompson <jetj...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > > Maybe Peter H. or Daniel Kerr could assist in this one. > > For quite a number of years I have been using a Voyager Q External drive, > purchased from Daniel, for my Backup and Time Machine, connected to my Mac > Mini (Late 2014) via Thunderbolt to firewire cable. This has worked fine > until my upgrade to Catalina which no longer supports Firewire and now > requires USB 3 connectivity. > > Could you please advise the cableing I would require and the port/s available > on the Mac Mini for same. > > Kind Regartds > > > John Thompson > jetj...@optusnet.com.au > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
