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Firewire HD Not Mounting
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Maltby, WA.
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When two firewire hard drives are DIRECTLY connected to a PM G4 DP 867MHz MDD, they won't mount. Yet each will mount when by them self.
This is a problem because I need to transfer data between them. Is there a known issue with the FW controller in this mac?
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Administrator  Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: California
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Are they both bus-powered? If so, they're overloading the G4's available bus power. Plug them into a powered hub to solve the problem.
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Each has it own power supply. Thanks for he suggestion.
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Moderator  Join Date: Aug 2001
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Are you daisy-chaining them?
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Join Date: Aug 2002
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I tried both ways (direct & daisy). One drive will only mount at a time.
The (royal pain in the) work a round was to install an additional drive in the desktop to temporally store the data for offloading. 30GB at a time, moof! Oh did I mention that I had to pull the drive from another computer?
Thanks everyone for your suggestions!
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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I've heard that G4s had problems with Firewire daisy chaining.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Oct 2005
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Not an uncommon issue. Apple even has a knowledgebase item about firewire iPods and iSights not working at the same time. The solution is to use USB.
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