[1394] Re: FireWire Problem

Tue Apr 29 16:57:07 PDT 2003

Thank you for your suggestions.  (I'm new and jumping in here.)  I followed
all your suggestions (my iMac has stopped recognizing firewire devices).  I
zapped the PRAM and  rebooted for the firmware.  When I got to the re-set
firewire spot, the computer could not recognize the reset-all.  Any idea
what I did wrong?  I typed the reboot command and it restarted.

Thanks.

----- Original Message -----
From: "David DelMonte" <ddelmonte at mac.com>
To: "Macintosh FireWire List" <FireWire at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 1:53 AM
Subject: [1394] Re: FireWire Problem

Cool.. Thanks

On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, at 08:06 AM, support at fwdepot wrote:

> Reboot your machine like you would for zapping pram except hold down
>
> Command-Option-O-F  (that¹s the letter O NOT number 0)
>
> At the open firmware prompt type reset-all and press return, the
> machine
> will reboot
>
>> How do you "reset firmware"?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, at 03:22 AM, support at fwdepot wrote:
>>
>>> 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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