Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

Hey,

      My G4 won't recognize my firewire any longer?  All my Logic work is on external 
drives.  

      My G5 laptop however still sees the drives.

      So, do you think it's a bad connection port?  Or is it that once you use a drive with a 
newer Operating System, that the older operating systems don't recognize the drive any 
longer???

      Appreciate any wisdom on this!!

On Apr 12, 2007, at 8:10 PM, pete_buchwald wrote:

> So, do you think it's a bad connection port? Or is it that once you  
> use a drive with a
> newer Operating System, that the older operating systems don't  
> recognize the drive any
> longer???

I swap drives between newer and older Mac OS all the time with no  
problem. Sounds like your firewire port has died.
Sorry. Does the bus still show up on about this mac more info. Apple  
menu/about this mac then more info/ firewire ?

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Duane,

   When I "apple"/about this mac/more info/firewire I get

"No information found"

    Pete

--- In Logic_Cafe@yahoogroups.com, Duane Miller <Duane@...> wrote:

>
> 
> On Apr 12, 2007, at 8:10 PM, pete_buchwald wrote:
> 
> > So, do you think it's a bad connection port? Or is it that once you  
> > use a drive with a
> > newer Operating System, that the older operating systems don't  
> > recognize the drive any
> > longer???
> 
> I swap drives between newer and older Mac OS all the time with no  
> problem. Sounds like your firewire port has died.
> Sorry. Does the bus still show up on about this mac more info. Apple  
> menu/about this mac then more info/ firewire ?
> 
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>

I once made the mistake of yanking the firewire cable on an external drive 
when it seemed to be hung up and not responding to anything else. After that the 
drive would not appear on the desktop as if damaged. However, I ran 
Diskwarrior on it, and it brought it back to life. Evidently some directory was 
corrupted, which was easily fixed. I have read that experts advise you don't even 
power down the mac with external drives - but rather drag the drives to the trash 
first (to eject them) before powering down the machine. The next thing to try 
is plugging it in to different firewire ports. I just bought a board with 
extra firewire and USB ports, and found the USB to be dead by plugging a drive 
into different jacks.
Greg


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Yea. That means your card is dead. AFAIK. Its possible that it came  
loose but that would be rare. It should show up even without a  
driver. If you have free slots in your machine a new firewire card is  
fairly inexpensive. FWIW Im no apple tech just a long time heavy  
user. But I can quit whenever I want. ; )

On Apr 13, 2007, at 5:38 AM, pete_buchwald wrote:

>
> When I "apple"/about this mac/more info/firewire I get
>
> "No information found"
>
> Pete



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