[G4] External Drives Not Mounting

[John Niven]

There are NO silly questions!

But yes I have two cables and the same drive works
fine with the almost identical G4 I have at work (it
is firewire powered). Also works fine with my wifes
Intel iMac (how come they get the new Macs?)

This is obviously a problem with the G4 design, since
so much has been written about its "solution". I'd
like to focus on the question of how one re-builds the
firmware. When it was all just in a ROM then I think
it was bomb-proof, but when it's in FLASH....

John

--- Steve Goldstein <sng at cox.net> wrote:

> 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?"
> 
> 




 
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