Daisy chaining and firewire
I recently daisy chained two external hard drives to a 12 inch Powerbook 1.5 running 10.3.9 through a Belkin 4 port firewire hub. Since the machine only has one firewire port I need to use the hub to hook up my drives, scanner, and ipod simultaneously.
It was working fine until I removed the battery today (to see if it needed to be replaced as part of the battery recall) and when I restarted the powerbook back it froze halfway through startup. It gave the multi-lingual warning/suggestion that I needed to restart.
Working my way back I discovered that neither the hub nor the daisy chain techniques work now, though I can hook up one device at a time.
Any idea why this would happen?
Is there some way to reset the firewire?
Many thanks,
Luke
It was working fine until I removed the battery today (to see if it needed to be replaced as part of the battery recall) and when I restarted the powerbook back it froze halfway through startup. It gave the multi-lingual warning/suggestion that I needed to restart.
Working my way back I discovered that neither the hub nor the daisy chain techniques work now, though I can hook up one device at a time.
Any idea why this would happen?
Is there some way to reset the firewire?
Many thanks,
Luke
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It seems like it is adding the second external hard drive that makes the conflict.
Reformat drive?
Originally posted by lukeb
Nope, reparing permissions did not effect the outcome: still crashed.
It seems like it is adding the second external hard drive that makes the conflict.
Reformat drive?
There could be a corruption, yes. What happens if you add the third drive second?
I recently reformatted it, but maybe I will do a zero level reformatting and see if that helps...