[G4] External firewire hard drives.

[Thomas Bulat]

Hi,
I had the FW port on my iMac "go bad" and I had to take it in for a
motherboard replacement, and thanks to having AppleCare I survived this!

So I hope that's not your problem, but it was in my case.

So long for now, TOM

>I have two LaCie 250gb external firewire hard drives.
>Both spin up when power is applied but neither show up on the Desktop  
>of my iMac G5. I have tried with two different firewire cables.
>Referring to the Internet, it seems that many people have the same  
>trouble with external hard drives. This doesn't add up to me. What is  
>so difficult? Should be a simple plug and play situation.
>Meanwhile, as neither drive is recognised, I am unable to apply any  
>testing or updating to them. Seems like a lost cause.
>
>
>iMac 20" G5, 2gb RAM, 250gb HDD.