[chris v]

I hooked up and external firewire hard drive for the first time just yesterday, so I'm still learning.
I got it formatted and partitioned, and it works as a boot drive, which makes me happy.
I put it to sleep last night, and when I woke it up today, i got a dialog box that said:

"A firewire disk has stopped responding. The problem must be corrected to prevent damaging the disk's contents.
Please check all connections. If you added, removed or turned a firewire device off or on, undo what you did."

There was no "OK" button, and after about fifteen seconds, it just went away, and everything seemed fine, with all the volumes mounted on the desktop, like I'd left it. I unmounted the firewire volumes, and put the computer to sleep, and didn't get the message on wake-up. I mounted the firewire drive, put 'er to sleep, and woke 'er up again, and it was back.

Is this just from the comp. taking a few moments to find everything upon waking up, or is it something I should worry about? Do I need to unmount the firewire drive whenever I put my computer to sleep to keep from damaging the firewire drive?

CV

Someone set us up the Hatt, Baby!

[GORDYmac]

I only get that error when I turn the drive off, wake up the computer, and forget to turn it back on.

Try disabling all of the extensions that came with the drive. FireWire 2.7 should handle most FireWire Hard Drives. It may be an extension conflict. I disabled all extensions and my drive works flawlessly in OS 9.1.