i seem to have trouble getting my firewire drive to show up on the desktop of my powerbook, especially running OS X.
I want to use the drive for storing music, so i want iTunes to rip the cd straight onto the firewire drive, but the drive will only show up maybe 1 time in 10 attempts, and when it does, it tends to freeze iTunes when i try to change the default destination for ripping files to.
what is the best way to connect the drive to the laptop. should i start with both powered up and then attach them, attach the disk then power the laptop?
suggestions welcome.