[Ti] Urgent Firewire Question

[David Anderson]

Frank:
Thanks for your reply. It does no matter if I have one connected or them
daisy chained, or through a Firewire hub, the same effect. And all have
dedicated power supplies.

On 1/27/03 7:27 PM, "Frank Farwell" <frankfarwell at mac.com> wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
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