[G4] External Drives Not Mounting

Steve Goldstein sng at cox.net
Fri Nov 24 05:31:33 PST 2006


It worked for me on my old Cube:

At 12:30 PM +0200 6/2/04, Luis Meleiro wrote:
>Alex,
>
>Please read it in here: < 
>http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20040310010541585 >
>
>"Reviving Cube FireWire ports"
>
>
>"Then I found an obscure post on cubeowner.com which reported a 
>'programmer's reset' solved the problem for the poster. I tried it, 
>and voila! I have firewire again. To invoke [the programmer's 
>reset]: Shut down computer, hold down programmer's button, and press 
>the power button to start up. If the power light flickers you've 
>done it correctly."
>
>LM



At 7:06 PM -0600 11/23/06, Ron Michael wrote:
>I'm not sure this is your problem but there was discussion in the 
>support section on the Apple website about the Firewire ports not 
>working correctly on certain models. Not sure if yours is one of 
>them. It outlined how to reset them. I'm sure the discussion is 
>still posted. I remember is was G4s.
>Ron/TN
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