[Ti] Firewire Ports

[Dave Friesen]

Regardless of what "techniques" people suggest the only way to prevent this from happening is to use the FW Cable from FWDepot. Somehow, the additional voltage is reaching the FW port. Unless you know the most intricate details of your particular device you won't know how.

All the other options are taking a chance with the port. Hence the reason Apple implemented a fix for the DVI and later Powerbooks.

So, is Apple going to release a "best practices" document? They aren't even going to admit there IS a problem!

For desktop owners they have the option of a PCI Firewire card, for laptop owners we don't, aside from an unpowered CardBus.

On Thursday, May 15, 2003, at 02:31PM, JELyon <jelyon at mac.com> wrote:

>I'm somewhat confused. Perhaps I'm tired, or just stupid, but it seems 
>half the folks are saying "don't use bus powered devices!" and half the 
>folks are saying "turn on your self powered devices before plugging 
>them in!" and the third half are saying "don't turn on your self 
>powered devices before plugging them in!"
>
>As a use a wireless card, I'd prefer not to have to make the choice 
>between firewire and internet connectivity, should I blow my port.
>
>Has Apple actually released a "best practices" document for this issue?
>
>On Thursday, May 15, 2003, at 12:01 PM, Dave Friesen wrote:
>
>> There's a fascinating discussion going on over at Macintouch about bad 
>> Firewire ports.