I am having the problem of whenever I plug my drive in, it doesn't show up al all on my Mac. When I plug the firewire in, the blue light blinks a little bit, but that's all. I it possible that the wire is defective?
It's possible. Has it worked before? Does it work on other computers? If it has worked, has it worked on this computer before? Can it be connected via USB (some externals have both) and does it work that way? Can you hear the drive spinning when it's powered on? On your mac, open up a terminal (maximize the window), plug in your drive and type this in the terminal dmesg This will output a ton of stuff, but the last 20 lines or so should be relevant to the last event, namely, connecting your drive. Copy that text to here and we'll take a look at what's going on. If you're feeling adventurous, you could take it out of the external case, mount it in your tower, and see if it's visible that way. Do NOT try this unless you know what you're doing. It's possible to really mess up your system. But if you've been in the case before and are comfortable with installing drives, this could be worth a shot.
Posted on Sep 05, 2007
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Ok I kinda just copied everything b/c i don't know what most of it means.
IOPathMatch IODeviceTree:/pci@f4000000/ata-6@D/@0:3
dmesg
standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
vm_page_bootstrap: 125001 free pages
mig_table_max_displ = 68
IOKit Component Version 7.9:
Wed Mar 30 20:07:52 PST 2005; root(rcbuilder):RELEASE_PPC/iokit/RELEASE
85 prelinked modules
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
using 1310 buffer headers and 1310 cluster IO buffer headers
Local FireWire GUID = 0xd93ff:0xfeb3bcb8
ADB present:8c
Security auditing service present
BSM auditing present
From path: "/pci@f4000000/ata-6@D/@0:3,\\mach_kernel", Waiting on
Got boot device = IOService:/MacRISC2PE/pci@f4000000/AppleMacRiscPCI/ata-6@D/AppleKauaiATA/ATADeviceNub@0/IOATABlockStorageDriver/IOATABlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDriver/FUJITSU MHT2060AT Media/IOApplePartitionScheme/Untitled@3
BSD root: disk0s3, major 14, minor 2
Jettisoning kernel linker.
Resetting IOCatalogue.
Matching service count = 0
AppleRS232Serial: 0 0 AppleRS232Serial::start - returning false early, Connector or machine incorrect
UniNEnet: Ethernet address 00:0d:93:b3:bc:b8
AirPortPCI: Ethernet address 00:0d:93:ee:36:70
IOFireWireIP: FireWire address 00:0d:93:ff:fe:b3:bc:b8
ATY,Via_A: vram [9c000000:02000000]
ATY,Via_B: vram [98000000:02000000]
AirPort: Link UP: "linksys_SES_43064" - 0014bfa624da - chan 11
AirPort: Rx'd mesg P-1
AirPort: Rx'd mesg P-3
AirPort: New Group Key, Idx 1
IP packet filtering initialized, divert enabled, rule-based forwarding enabled, default to accept, logging disabled
IPv6 packet filtering initialized, default to accept, logging disabled
IP firewall loaded
AppleNMI mask NMI
AirPort: Link DOWN
System Sleep
System Wake
Wake event 0008
AppleNMI unmask NMI
Sound assertion "0 != err" failed in "AppleLegacyAudio/AppleTexas2Audio/AppleTexas2Audio.cpp" at line 960 goto Exit
\^PFWOHCI handleSelfIDInt - nodeID not valid (reset bus and retry 1)
ADB present:8c
AirPort: Link UP: "linksys_SES_43064" - 0014bfa624da - chan 11
AirPort: Rx'd mesg P-1
AirPort: Rx'd mesg P-3
AirPort: New Group Key, Idx 1
Help! I have a Fanthom external drive and a iomega portable ext drive that does not show up on my screen. They both use to show up on my mac Ibook and now they don't. I used the ibook ext drive for awhile then one day it just stop showing up on the screen so I bought the Fanthom and the same thing eventually happened. My operating system is 0SX.ver. 10.3.9. I did go into the system profile and when click firewire, the Fanthom shows up when it's plugged in but still soesn't show up on the desktop.
Any ideas? Alex
Al FireWire Bus:
Speed: 400 Mb/sec Speed
BABW:
Capacity: 111.79 GB
Manufacturer: DMI
Model: BABW
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: Yes
BSD Name: disk2
OS9 Drivers: No
Speed: 400 Mb/sec Speed
Unit Spec Id: 24734
Firmware Revision: 4.73
Unit Software Version: 10483
i have yhe sem problem in my imac g5 powerpc 1.6
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