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FireWire peripherals wont mount OS X 10.3.4
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Join Date: May 2005
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Hi
My girlfriend and I have the same Mac set up (iMac G4 15 inch flatscreen) and we are both running OS X 10.3.4. The problem is that her external firewire hard drive and external Fireire DVD writer will not mount on her machine. When I plug these into my Mac, everything works fine. I plugged in an iPod into one of the FireWire ports on her Mac, but it did not mount, yet managed to draw power from the port.
Does anybody know what could be wrong?
Thank You in Advance
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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seems to happen a lot (and have you searched the forum here for this?)
try running disk utility (starting up from the mac's cd, or an osx cd);
try rebooting!
even better...go to software update & update to 10.3.9 (last & best version of 10.3); that should do it.
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Originally Posted by centro
Hi
... we are both running OS X 10.3.4...
Just wondering...did you mean 10.4.3 (the latest verision of Tiger)?
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"Mac Daddy" - 15" MBP, 2.2 GHz Core i7, 8GB, 750GB HDD
"Mommy Mac" - 13" Macbook, 2.4GHz C2D, 2GB, 160GB
"Baby Mac" - 15" PB, 1.5GHz, 1.5GB, 80GB
64GB iPod Touch (4th gen)
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If it is 10.3.4, then you need to update it to 10.3.9 ASAP. The older versions of 10.3.x had problems with FireWire drives.
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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This just started happening to me today. I have a macally PHR-100ACB connected FW800 to my 17" powerbook. Has worked flawlessly up until now. When I plug it in it seems to see that a firewire device has been plugged in, however the 2 partitions on the drive to not mount like they should.
I am running 10.4.3
Has anyone figured this out? Does Apple know about it?
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Well it started working a few days after my last post. Now I have just updated to 10.4.4 and it's not mounting again. Nice.
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"I'm the commander - see, I don't need to explain - I don't need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the President. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation."
- Dictator George W. Bush, Washington Post, 11-19-02
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Have you upgraded the firmware on your FireWire drive to the latest version? If not, that is more than likely the problem. Go to www.fwdepot.com and click the Firmware Info link at the top of the page to download some software that will tell you what your current firmware is and how to update it (or visit the manufacturers web site and look for updates there).
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