I really do not know the answer to that, but some of the pins carry current/voltage, and others carry signals, and it could be that the pins which carry voltage from the power supply are still energized while the pins carrying the signals are kaput. Just a SWAG. --Steve At 9:02 PM -0600 10/3/03, Francois Barbary wrote: >the ipod still charges from the FW plug on the cube. Is that normal >of a blown FW port?