[1394] FireWire Problem

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Did you he have do the following:

1) reboot machine
2) zap pram
3) reboot machine
4) reset open firmware

Without another firewire device to test it will be hard for you to determine
whether the port is live or dead but if the cdrw is still functioning, after
performing the above it should either work or confirm that the port is dead
(which we doubt) - the problem you described sounds more like a probably
media problem than an actual firewire problem, but the force quit may have
caught the firewire port in an interim state which is why it is frozen...


> I have a 550mHz G4 Powerbook that I bought in December
> of 2001. I have a 6 month old external cd-rw drive
> connected to the FireWire port. I use Toast Lite to
> burn CDs. Two weeks ago I was copying an audio cd and
> it was almost finished with the verification process
> when it "froze" -- not exactly froze. It seemed to be
> still working, but when it was in the same
> verification position for about 30 minutes I figured
> something was wrong (it normally takes about 10
> minutes total for me to copy one cd). I was unable to
> cancel, so I force-quit the application. Ever since
> that time, my computer is not reading anything
> connected to my firewire port. I had a friend of my
> who is a mac-guru take a look at it and he couldn't
> tell what was wrong, but said he had been reading
> about a potential problem with the firewire ports on
> some of the earlier models of the G4 Powerbook. He
> also said it might be my cd-rw drive. I don't have any
> other firewire devices, so I'm wondering if there is
> any way of determining if it is a problem with the
> computer or the peripheral.
> 
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