Ahhh!!! The Hell Of Firewire!!!

**solrac** · January 19th, 2003, 02:23 AM

WHY?????

Today my external firewire hard drive stopped showing up on my desktop. I tried connecting it to both of its firewire ports. Then I tried using the iPod's firewire cable. No change.

But connecting the iPod directly to my computer works fine. The iPod shows up.

And taking the hard drive to my other mac works fine. The hard drive shows up.

So, the hard drive is not broken. It works fine on the other mac. My firewire port is not broken. The iPod works fine.

What the hell is it????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????!!!!!!!!!

**edX** · January 19th, 2003, 04:18 AM

you need to run Diskwarrior on your internal drive. almost 90% of the time when i have a recognition problem with my fw hd's it's due to problems with my main hd. sometimes both need fixing, but usually everything goes back to normal after the main is fixed. one trick with diskwarrior (and yes you're going to need to boot to os 9 to run it), is that if you launch it and then plug in your problem drive, 99% of the time it will find it and be able to repair it which might do the trick, but i'm guessing the main drive is the problem if the fw drive works on the other mac.

**solrac** · January 19th, 2003, 05:42 AM

Diskwarrior is not an option.....
I rm -rf'ed OS 9 a while ago. I will try several disk utility programs EXCEPT NORTON ANYTHING on my disk and see what comes up.... fingers crossed....

**jove** · January 19th, 2003, 10:52 AM

The disk warior CD is OS9 bootable. It has a copy on the CD. I also keep a bare bones copy of OS 9 and disk warrior right on the iPod for emergencies.

No Mac user should be without disk warrior.

**toast** · January 19th, 2003, 12:43 PM

I am the God of Hellfire, and I bring you...

**edX** · January 19th, 2003, 12:53 PM

well, you can wait about 4-5 weeks and and an os x native version of diskwarrior should be out.

this is the biggest reason i keep os 9 around - to run diskwarrior to solve this problem when it arises - primarily following power outages.

**jove** · January 19th, 2003, 06:44 PM

Has Apple released the "bare bones" X option yet. I heard it was going to be license free for companies and individuals to create bootable media.

**solrac** · January 19th, 2003, 07:43 PM

wow i never knew diskwarrior was so powerful and respected. Well, I should get a bootable CD of it, an OS 9 CD....

I'll post what luck I have with that... hopefully it fixes it!