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Firewire issues?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Washington, DC
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I've got a couple Firewire drives (from Other World Computing) that I have connected to a couple macs for Time Machine. I get intermittent issues where the entire computer becomes unresponsive UNTIL I disconnect the drive. Once I pull the firewire cable, the OS interface does a fast-forward of everything I tried to do (clicking apps in the doc, clicking on menus, etc). The only real solution has been to pull the plug and then restart.
Does anyone else have issues with Firewire drives like this? I'd attribute it to a single drive failure or something, but the fact that it has happened on more than one computer with two different Firewire drives leaves me to believe that it is a bug in Firewire handling in 10.5.2.
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Cupar, UK
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I have just been playing with a DV camera with my new MacPro and I think there may be Firewire issues as well. I had no problems with my old PowerMac or with my MacBook Pro but the MacPro refuses to see the camera and causes System Profiler to hang on the Firewire pane. Trying to use this with FInal Cut Express even caused a kernel panic.
I have not seen HD issues like you but I have only used my external FW HDD briefly with this computer and not with Time Machine.
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Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Fort Wayne, IN
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I'm having similar issues with 2 Fantom Drive FW 800 hds. locks up the system, and requires hard reset to get back with the drives plugged in, but will not go through the boot process. Unplugging them frees up the system. Still looking into this issue, but so far, no solution.
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Fort Wayne, IN
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Cupar, UK
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As this seems a problem on some new models has anyone discussed this with AppleCare? I was intending to call them. I wondered if this was a known issue.
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: May 2008
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Try screwing around with the order of the drives in the daisy chain. I know it sounds weird, but occasionally I have issues that are almost like the old SCSI termination problems, where you had to make sure your drives were connected in just the right order and through just the right port.
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Cupar, UK
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This happens to me when I have nothing else plugged into a Firewire port. I can't blame this for the weird behaviour.
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Cupar, UK
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Just checked my FireWire problems since I installed 10.5.3. No problem at all now. Looks like they fixed it, whatever it was.
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