Question for those w/ Firewire...

ScottW

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If you go to Apple System Profiler (err System Profiler in 10.3) what do you see under "FireWire" if you have no devices install?!
 
adambyte said:
It looks kinda like this. Why do you ask?
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Well, my Firewire Tape Backup hasn't worked in awhile. I really hadn't spent a lot of time thinking about it our troubleshooting it until I went to upgrade to 10.3... plus it was on my TODO list to start my routine backups.

However, I can't seem to get my drive to show up and nothing sees it. When I go into System Profiler it just says "No Information" as though I don't even have Firewire support on my machine. Which I obviously do.

Your screen shot answers my suspicions. Time to call Apple I believe. :)
 

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Yikes. That's the exact message I get if I select the Airport Card option - I don't have an airport card (yet).
 
Yes, I have 10.3.1. I haven't seen it working since 10.2.8 I believe. I almost called to have my drive serviced, but w/ all the FW issues lately, wanted to see if it was really my drive or my Mac.
 
What kind of Mac? I've heard about a few fried FireWire chipsets after using bus powered units.
 
Well, okay. If I have my tape drive turned on it says "No Information Found" as displayed above. However, if I power off the drive or unplug it from FW, then it shows the Firewire Bus, 400mb/sec deal.

Maybe I have a bad FW drive? I will try and plug it in another OS box and see if I can get it to find it.
 
Got another FW drive to test? If that doesn't show up as well, then there's a bug in your FW drivers somewhere.

BTW, um, about your avatar... :confused:
 
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