[1394] Re: drive now mounts.... but

[support at fwdepot]

Your new problem sounds like a compatibility issue between drivers

If you formatted the drive using Apple's generic drivers and now you are
using 3rd party drivers, there may be some voodoo going on there which is
causing the problem (at least this is what we have seen as the source of the
problem consistently in the past)

So, you should be using whatever drivers you used when you formatted the
drive


> Thanks all, I'm making progress. After loading some third party drivers
> from EZQuest the volumes (four partitions on the drive) now appear on
> the desktop.....
> 
> I can't answer about the chipset on the pci card. Their web site's
> "product specs" page tells me there are three firewire ports and two usb
> ports. That's the extent of their specs!
> 
> Now when I attempt to copy media files from partition to partition on
> that drive, or from a partition on my scsi raid system to the firewire
> drive, I get the copy dialogue box to open and then the system just
> stops. The curser still moves, but nothing else happens. It won't even
> to a force quite, I have to turn off the power and reboot.
> 
> I've retested the firewire drive  when it's plugged into my powerbook G3
> Firewire, and it works fine (OS 9.2.2).
> 
> support at fwdepot wrote:
> 
>> Not the chip on the enclosure, the chips on the PCI card (hopefully it has a
>> TI chip on it)
>> 
>> Definitely reload the extensions, and you don¹t need the cardbus extension
>> on the 9500
>> 
>>  
>> 
>>> The chip set is an Oxford 911,
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the information about the Support Extension, I thought that
>>> was odd. I'll try downloading it again since I've already installed the
>>> one I have twice. I use Conflict Catcher on this machine and indeed the
>>> Support extension doesn't even show up in there, although it is residing
>>> in the active extensions folder. It doesn't show up during the init
>>> parade either.
>>> 
>>> support at fwdepot wrote:
>>> 
>>>    
>>> 
>>>> Try resintalling the FireWire drivers.  They should all show as extensions.
>>>> 
>>>> Also open the Extensions Manager to make certain that all extensions are
>>>> loaded
>>>> 
>>>> What chip is used on the PCI card?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>      
>>>> 
>>>>> Greetings All,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I just installed a firewire/usb pci card in my venerable Mac 9500
>>>>> running OS 8.6 and haven't been able to see my firewire drive on the
>>>>> desktop.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Details:
>>>>> PPC G-4 (upgrade card in proc. slot)
>>>>> OS 8.6
>>>>> Firewire Enabler 2.3.3 (latest driver listed for OS 8.6 as far as I know)
>>>>> Firewire Cardbus Enabler 2.3.3
>>>>> Firewire Support 2.3.3
>>>>> Drive: EZQuest Cobra+
>>>>> 
>>>>> One thing I've noticed is that the Firewire Support extension is listed
>>>>> in the finder as a document, while the other two are listed as
>>>>> extensions. I've tried reinstalling them and it came out the same way.
>>>>> Is it supposed to be that way?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Any ideas would be appreciated. (OS upgrading is not an option due to
>>>>> third party hardware issues)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> David
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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>>>>> 
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>>>>> 
>>>> ----------
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>>>> FAQ at <http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/FireWireFAQ.shtml>.
>>>> 
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>>>> 
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>>>> 
>>>>       
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> ----------
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>>> FAQ at <http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/FireWireFAQ.shtml>.
>>> 
>>> ADS Tech.| PYRO Drive Kit: convert your drive to firewire!
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>>> 
>>> Cyberian   | Support this list when you buy at Outpost.com!
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>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 
>>>    
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ----------
>> MacFireWireTalk list, a listserv for discussion of FireWire on Macintosh.
>> FAQ at <http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/FireWireFAQ.shtml>.
>> 
>> ADS Tech.| PYRO Drive Kit: convert your drive to firewire!
>> Dr. Bott | Now $169.00 <http://www.drbott.com/prod/ADS.html>
>> 
>>   Cyberian   | Support this list when you buy at Outpost.com!
>>   Outpost    |         http://www.themacintoshguy.com/outpost.shtml
>> 
>> FireWire | 2.5" and 3.5" FireWire hard disk enclosures
>> Depot   | starting at $95!!  <http://www.fwdepot.com>
>> 
>> 
>>  
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----------
> MacFireWireTalk list, a listserv for discussion of FireWire on Macintosh.
> FAQ at <http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/FireWireFAQ.shtml>.
> 
> ADS Tech.| PYRO Drive Kit: convert your drive to firewire!
> Dr. Bott | Now $169.00 <http://www.drbott.com/prod/ADS.html>
> 
>  Cyberian   | Support this list when you buy at Outpost.com!
>  Outpost    |         http://www.themacintoshguy.com/outpost.shtml
> 
> FireWire | 2.5" and 3.5" FireWire hard disk enclosures
> Depot   | starting at $95!!  <http://www.fwdepot.com>
> 
>