On Jul 14, 2005, at 11:52 PM, RR wrote: If I'm reading right (perhaps a little doubtful for me since I've had barely a cup of coffee) your test pool consists of just the iPod. Before suspecting something terribly expensive to fix (your firewire port) I'd take a look at a much less expensive - and vulnerable - piece of hardware. The iPod's firewire cable. Two easy ways to test it: get or borrow another iPod firewire cable. Test a different firewire device. cheers david =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Now, I go to spread happiness to the rest of the station. It is a terrible responsibility but I have learned to live with it. ~~ Londo david citizen.gkar at gmail.com