Firewire suddenly quit working on iBook 466

s6275s6275
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Some background: the port has never been used much, at all. Suddenly two days ago, on an otherwise perfectly funtioning Graphite iBook SE 466, FireWire suddenly quit working. I have run AppleJack, OnyX, 10.4.8 Combo Update, reset nvram and all, zapped the PRAM, and performed a PMU reset. Target Disk Mode doesn't work either. Finally, the power light on the drive does come on, and stay on, but the drive never mounts. The drive DOES mount fine on my other Macs, though. After all this, FireWire drives still don't even show if I boot from my Tiger disc. Any ideas?

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 3
    rob05aurob05au Posts: 348member
    Try changing the firewire cable it maybe causing some problems.



    Does the firewire show under system profiler?
  • Reply 2 of 3
    s6275s6275 Posts: 19member
    Well, I've tried 3 different cables, and while the PORT does show in System Profiler, anything connected to it does NOT. Any other suggestions?
  • Reply 3 of 3
    s6275s6275 Posts: 19member
    FABULOUS: AppleJack states:



    FireWire (OHCI) Apple ID 18 built-in: no valid selfIDs for more than 2 minutes after bus reset.
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