[Ti] Urgent Firewire Question

[Frank Farwell]

On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 07:08  PM, David Anderson wrote:

> I asked this question over the weekend but got no answer. I have 
> several
> external firewire drives, three 40gb Western Digitals and one Maxtor 
> 80gb. I
> use them for backup and video editing with my Ti 500 Powerbook. The 
> problem
> is whether I connect them through a powered hub or directly to the Ti¹s
> Firewire hub, either one or daisy chained, the drives will be 
> accessible for
> a few moments and then the red read/write light will come on on the 
> drive
> and it will just freeze... This happens with all four drives, and then 
> I get
> the beachball of death, any help is appreciated. I am running OSX 
> 10.2.3
>
>
David
sounds like a overload on the firewire port(s) but im not sure if you 
are trying to run them all at once or one at a time or?
does one work at a time or maybe 2?  are you using a power supply for 
each drive?

frank farwell