[1394] Re: FireWire Problem

[support at fwdepot]

Reboot your machine like you would for zapping pram except hold down

Command-Option-O-F  (that¹s the letter O NOT number 0)

At the open firmware prompt type reset-all and press return, the machine
will reboot

> How do you "reset firmware"?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, at 03:22 AM, support at fwdepot wrote:
> 
>> Did you he have do the following:
>> 
>> 1) reboot machine
>> 2) zap pram
>> 3) reboot machine
>> 4) reset open firmware
>> 
>> Without another firewire device to test it will be hard for you to
>> determine
>> whether the port is live or dead but if the cdrw is still functioning,
>> after
>> performing the above it should either work or confirm that the port is
>> dead
>> (which we doubt) - the problem you described sounds more like a
>> probably
>> media problem than an actual firewire problem, but the force quit may
>> have
>> caught the firewire port in an interim state which is why it is
>> frozen...
>> 
>> 
>>> I have a 550mHz G4 Powerbook that I bought in December
>>> of 2001. I have a 6 month old external cd-rw drive
>>> connected to the FireWire port. I use Toast Lite to
>>> burn CDs. Two weeks ago I was copying an audio cd and
>>> it was almost finished with the verification process
>>> when it "froze" -- not exactly froze. It seemed to be
>>> still working, but when it was in the same
>>> verification position for about 30 minutes I figured
>>> something was wrong (it normally takes about 10
>>> minutes total for me to copy one cd). I was unable to
>>> cancel, so I force-quit the application. Ever since
>>> that time, my computer is not reading anything
>>> connected to my firewire port. I had a friend of my
>>> who is a mac-guru take a look at it and he couldn't
>>> tell what was wrong, but said he had been reading
>>> about a potential problem with the firewire ports on
>>> some of the earlier models of the G4 Powerbook. He
>>> also said it might be my cd-rw drive. I don't have any
>>> other firewire devices, so I'm wondering if there is
>>> any way of determining if it is a problem with the
>>> computer or the peripheral.
>>> 
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>> 
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> FAQ at <http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/FireWireFAQ.shtml>.
> 
> ADS Tech.| PYRO Drive Kit: convert your drive to firewire!
> Dr. Bott | Now $169.00 <http://www.drbott.com/prod/ADS.html>
> 
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