[X4U] Fixing firewire - Summary

Allan Rube ¹ allan at nhbungalow.com
Tue Jan 9 04:18:57 PST 2007


I am agreeing with Jen and Simon that I need to take it to Apple. The
devises work fine on another Mac and suggestions to fix it - shutting down,
removing cables, resetting the SMC, did not work.

Allan


Jens Selvig wrote:

> Sounds to me like a hardware issue. Do you have an Apple store or
> dealer near you? I assume you restarted your computer as a test. Were
> you using the same cable when testing on the hard drive?
> 
> Jens
> 
> 
> On Jan 7, 2007, at 6:11 PM, Allan Rube¹ wrote:
> 
>> I have a MacPro running 10.4.8. I have a firewire compact card
>> reader. It
>> worked fine till today. It is not recognized. I even ran system
>> profiler and
>> nothing shows up on the bus. I then plugged in a firewire hard
>> drive with
>> the same result.
>> 
>> It is not the reader or the drive as they work fine on my G4 Mac.
> 





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