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firewire fix - why did this work?
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Join Date: Feb 2001
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I have a PowerMac DP500 running OS 10.2. In the old days under 9.2 my firewire connection worked fine - camcorder, Jaz disk thru a SCSI/firewire converter, etc. Today for the first time I tried using firewire under OS X and couldn't connect to anything.
I stumbled onto a fix by re-booting into 9.2 and using FWB Hard Disk Toolkit. HDT could see and mount the Jaz disk thru the Orange Micro SCSI/firewire converter, and showed it as a SCSI disk. FWB provides another utility called Firewire Loader. Without knowing what it does, I ran it with the default option and the Jaz disk now appeared as a firewire disk (still in OS 9.2). I then re-booted into OS 10.2 and now firewire works fine. I slip in a Jaz disk and it pops up on the desktop, all thru the SCSI/firewire converter.
So the question is, how did running a utility in OS 9.2 fix a problem in OS X and allow my firewire connection to work properly? By the way, I have virtually identical software installed on a Quicksilver 867 and it has had no problems with the firewire connection.
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Rochester, MN USA
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Just to fathom a guess....
There was an update that messed up firewire. Make sure you have the most recent firmware for your system (4.2.8 I believe)
The fix was probably due to FWB putting their own drivers on the drive negating the problem. I still prefer to have Apple drivers on my hard drives when possible.
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I would guess that what your did in OS 9 had nothing to do with your FireWire coming back at all. I think it was the restart that got it working again. Unless your did something with that utility to change someone on your Jaz disk. Interesting, though.
Brad
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Your suggestions are reasonable, but probably not correct. It seems I already have the latest firmware installed (4.2.8f1). And all of my Jaz disks now mount correctly, not just the one that may have had its driver updated. So I'm still puzzled, but pleased that it works.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Dec 2000
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blow more magic smoke into you mac and everything should be AOKAY
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I GOT WASTED WITH PHIL SHERRY!!!
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Blowing smoke in is OK. Just don't let the smoke out. Everything I let the smoke out of quits working.
I let the smoke out of a processor once...
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