my whole FIREWIRE BUS...just Disappeared !?!

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bluesignsbluesigns
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
well, this is a new one on me.



Pismo 400MHZ

1/2 gig RAM

2 partitions



1 with 9.1

1 with 10.2



everything was fineand then i plugged a firewire drive in to transfer some files while booted into 10.2.



but the drive didn't show up.



i rebooted into OS9.1 and still no drive.



so i do a system profile and... NO FIRWIRE BUS!?!



i had just used this FW drive on this machine yesterday and everything was cool.

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  • Reply 1 of 7
    isracesisraces Posts: 92member
    Run the apple hw test disc and do the logic board test
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  • Reply 2 of 7
    bluesignsbluesigns Posts: 315member
    thanks. that's right. i'm looking for my hardware test disk right now.





    ishut the machine down and tried to boot it as "target" in "firewire target disk mode" and much to my surprise - it worked.



    i offloaded most of the important stuff i've got on there.



    i'm going to dothe hardware test. good thinking. thanks.





    and although i didn't want to do this

    i think i'm going to wipe the whole thing,

    set up 2 new partitions and do a fresh install of the OS's.
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  • Reply 3 of 7
    bluesignsbluesigns Posts: 315member
    upon reboot

    apple system profiler is now showing a firewire bus.



    strange.
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  • Reply 4 of 7
    ast3r3xast3r3x Posts: 5,012member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by bluesigns

    upon reboot

    apple system profiler is now showing a firewire bus.



    strange.



    Always try a reboot before you post or ask a question. Haha rebooting is the universal computer problem solver I do it at least 2-4 times a day when I am at work.
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  • Reply 5 of 7
    jeremiah richjeremiah rich Posts: 853member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by ast3r3x

    Always try a reboot before you post or ask a question. Haha rebooting is the universal computer problem solver I do it at least 2-4 times a day when I am at work.



    Running Windows eh?
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  • Reply 6 of 7
    1337_5l4xx0r1337_5l4xx0r Posts: 1,558member
    ROTFL.
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  • Reply 7 of 7
    bluesignsbluesigns Posts: 315member
    Uhm, yeah,



    i rebooted like 8 or 9 times back and forth between OS9 and OSX partitions.



    it was only after utilizing "firewire target disk mode" successfully and then rebooting yet again that there was a recognition of the firewire bus once again.
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