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Ryan1524 · Nov 5, 2004, 08:29 PM

It works okay on my Powerbook, but on my dad's new iBook, it won't show at all. System profiler saysNo Information Found. and Disk Utils doesn't show anything either.

any way to fix this?

Mojo · 07:51 PM

First (and easiest) things first: are you using the same cable? Does it work with another Firewire device? How about the port on the iBook? Can you confirm that it is working properly?

I was once having fits with an factory-installed Ethernet port on my 7300/200... It turned out to be a bad port; adding another Ethernet port by installing a PCI card did the trick, cheaply. The 7300 was way beyond its warranty expiration date by the time I tried to use the bad port...

I also had problems with a 200GB FW drive that was caused by a narrow gauge cable that was not capable of handling the transfer dynamics of the large drive.

Sometimes a FW drive will not mount on one machine even though it works with another. It's probably a FW drive chipset issue, but I can't offer a fix for that problem.