[Anner Tiete]

Hello,

I am having a really annoying problem concerning my ipod and connecting it to my Ibook 600 (which has only one firewire port).
The fact is I recently decided to put all my music (15 GB) on to a external Firewire disk, a 30 GB IBM deskstar in a firewire enclosure with the OXFORD 900 chipset. This all went smooth, OS X detects the FW disk and I copied all my music on to it. Then I reimported it into Itunes. That all worked fine.

But when I now try to update my Ipod, I would have to connect it to the second port on the external FW disk and "daisy-chain" it to my Ibook.
Well, this is what happens.
When I just connect it the Ipod starts charging.
When I turn on the external firewire drive (it needs power from an outlet), the Ipod reboots and goes into firewire mode (firewire symbol). My external FW disk appears on the desktop, but there is no Ipod.
I allready tried connecting the devices in other orders, first putting the drive on, then connecting the ipod, but all give the same results.
NO ipod, not in finder, not in itunes

My Ipod isn't broken though, because when I connect it directly to my ibook it mounts and I can use it, even in itunes ... but my music is on the external FW disk !!!

please HELP me ...
my ipod just turned into a paperweight and I'm bored listening to the same 200 songs for the last month !
(I secretly hoped the 1.1 firmware would solve this problem but it didn't !)

Is there a way to get my ipod mounted, a way to get new songs on it (preferable with itunes, not by copying the songs to the ibook harddisk and than reimporting them in itunes and then syncing with the ipod).
I allready thought about a firewire hub, but i think this should be a last resort option because that is really expensive...

Please help me (2x)

Thanks in advance !!!!

Anner Tiete

[-Q-]

The iPod has to be the first device in the FireWire chain, which is why it won't mount whe it's plugged into your FW HDD. You may want to try something like a FireWire Hub but I don't know if that will solve the issue...

[GK]

I plug my iPod into my external FW HD, no problems whatsoever.
It should be possible.

[ph@lmi.net]

i usually plug my ipod into a firewire port on a powered pci card (on the DP500) with no problem. i just hooked the ipod to a firewire drive (not oxford 911) on the same pci card and it mounts just fine. no problem mounting through the drive if it's mounted on the internal bus either. ipod has no problem with the non-oxford drive.

i just plugged my ipod into my oxford 911 drive (plugged in to built-in firewire), and it has not mounted. plug ipod directly in to built-in firewire and it mounts.

same problem when the oxford drive is plugged in to a pci-based firewire port.

if i unplug the cable from the oxford drive, and plug it in to the powered pci card, ipod automatically boots and mounts normally. if i unmount ipod and plug it into the built-in port directly, it works.

in concurrence, ipod does not mount when connected to my OWC oxford 911 drive...

[ 04-03-2002: Message edited by: ph@lmi.net ]

[dav]

i'd recommend trying a powered firewire hub. relatively inexpensive and should solve your problems.
that said, my ipod works daisy chained into an external HD which is plugged into a cd-rw which is plugged into my cube.