Thanks guys for your help. Well I tried mounting my ipod on my external HD and it worked fine. Ironically that this is happening to a fresh installed OS. Does anyone recommend reinstalling the OS with the archive option? Sam On Feb 27, 2005, at 10:04 AM, themacuser wrote: > Firewire cables seem to die fairly often... > In fact, if your drive doesn't work, try another cable FIRST before > you try another computer or cable. Broken FireWire cables can > sometimes damage things. I heard of a guy who couldnt get a FW HDD to > mount so he tried another computer, and another after that. He fried > the firewire controllers on 3 computers. > On 27/02/2005, at 12:31, John Lyon wrote: > >> John has a great point here. Recently I was using my iPod cable to >> connect a >> CD/DVD burner to my iBook. It wouldn't mount known good disks, until >> I tried >> another FireWire cable. >> >> On 2/26/05 2:26 PM, "John McGibney" <ensignjd at optonline.net> either >> wrote, >> forwarded or quoted: >> >>> How about trying a different cable? Sounds like a bad connection bad >>> port/cable problem. Can you try it on a different machine? >>> >>> John >> >> -- >> John Lyon - Austin, TX >> I used to be a network admin, but then I switched. >> Now I'm a Public Administration major and SAHD... >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Titanium mailing list >> Titanium at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/titanium >> > > _______________________________________________ > Titanium mailing list > Titanium at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/titanium >