[G4] External firewire hard drives

[John Baltutis]

On 12/294/08,  Pat Crowe <crowesnest at aapt.net.au> wrote:
>
> 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.

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