Are these self-powered drives, or are you trying to draw power from the Firewire port itself? Self-powered drives (those with their own power supply) should not be giving you those problems. --Steve At 7:29 AM -0400 7/6/05, S.L. wrote: >I'm no tech guru, but I thought Firewire was pretty simple plug-and-go technology. What is the secret to using external firewire drives with a Cube OSX 10.3? Is there a weakness in the firewire hardware of the Cube?