Sounds like either a bad cable or a bad firewire port on the enclosure or the CPU. I've seen each of these things cause what you describe. Good luck. -Hal On Feb 16, 2007, at 2:17 PM, Robert Buhrman wrote: > Hi guys > I have a 1.25 gig mirror g4 with 3 external hard drives on my > firewire ports. > Sometimes they just drop off and i get that warning that they were not > unmounted correctly. I have tried reformatting , no fix. Does anybody > know what's up? I use 10.3.9. > Thanks > Robert > _______________________________________________ > G4 mailing list > G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984