[Macpartners] Re: G5 Firewire Question

[Albert Willis]

It's not supposed to matter if the FireWire devices are on or off when 
you plug them in. A couple of troubleshooting techniques I would try:

- different set of FireWire cables
- booting info safe mode and then try (see 
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=153383)

Let us know how it goes.

   -- Al

On Jul 8, 2004, at 10:20 AM, Felix Kreisel wrote:

>> With a G5 and some firewire drives.  As soon as I plug in a miniDV 
>> camera the system comes to a stand still.  If I unplug the camera, it 
>> all starts working again properly.   It also works fine if it is the 
>> only device plugged into a firewire port.  This is a single G5 
>> processor at 1.8Ghz.  I was wondering if anyone else had any similar 
>> incidents, or if this sounds like it might be a hardware problem? 
>> This is running 10.3 with all the updates.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mike
>
> G4/867 running 10.3 and a Que-120 firewire drive. Connect a miniDV 
> camera to the drive and as long as the camera is ON, everything works. 
> However, if you turn the camera OFF the firewire drive seems to 
> disappear. If I disconnect the camera, the drive is back.
>
> My conclusion: firewire devices need to be turned on.
>
> Felix Kreisel
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