[G4] External Drives Not Mounting

[Steve Goldstein]

Silly question(s): did you try another FW cable just to make sure that your cable is still good, and does the external drive have its own power supply instead of attempting to suck juice from the computer?

--Steve

At 10:41 AM -0800 11/27/06, John Niven wrote:
>I too have just found out I have this problem :-(
>...
>
>Anway, I've tried the programmers reset, the Open
>firmware reset, the Option-Command-P-R reset, and even
>replaced the PRAM battery.
>...
>
>I do not believe that the firewire ports are dead. I
>believe that my firmware is corrupted. So the question
>is "How do you verify that the firmware is correct,
>and how do you re-flash it if it's wrong?"