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colesy
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Post subject: Firewire no longer working  Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 5:13 pm |
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For some reason the firewire ports have stopped working on two of our emacs. I know in OS9 there was an extension to disable firewire, but I cannot find this anywhere in OSX.. We use these systems for final cut studio, and have firewire cameras, so this is something we need working.. We have tried different cameras, and cables and nothing seems to work. I even tried just plugging in a firewire hard drive, and it wouldn't mount.
Anything I should be checking. I can't see it being a hardware issue, but who knows.
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 5:51 pm |
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Hi
Try booting from a OSX CD and opening disk utility and plug in a external HD..does it show up
Also hold ALT before the chime with a firewire drive with OSX installed on it.
Have you tried reseting the Defaults
Hold Apple and ALT + O and F before the chime and type
reset-nvram (press enter)
set-defaults (press enter)
reset-all (press enter)
What does the system log show and the system profile?
Have you put on a apple update?
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colesy
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 11:18 pm |
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I will give this a shot and let you know.. Thanks...
What would cause something like this to happen?
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colesy
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 4:32 pm |
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I tried the reset, and it didn't seem to make a difference. I tried booting to a firewire drive, and it wouldn't show up in the list. I checked the system log and here it is:
Nov 6 10:25:57 hcss21500mac010 mDNSResponder: Adding browse domain local.
Nov 6 10:25:58 hcss21500mac010 mDNSResponder: HostnameCallback: Error -65557 for registration of hcss21500mac001. IP 10.22.71.105
Nov 6 10:26:01 hcss21500mac010 diskarbitrationd[39]: disk0s12 hfs 4280DB35-1598-3B61-ADD2-24EC74C5CEF8 Storage /Volumes/Storage
Nov 6 10:26:01 hcss21500mac010 configd[37]: target=enable-network: disabled
Nov 6 10:28:49 hcss21500mac010 kernel[0]: FireWire (OHCI) Apple ID 31 built-in: no valid selfIDs for more than 2 minutes after bus reset.
Not sure if that tells you anything... It's weird, all the dates before the first Nov 6, are from Dec 31st, which doesn't make sense. Anyway there were a bunch of updates as well, so I am going to let those run and see if it makes a difference. Let me know if you can think of anything else.
Thanks.
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 9:21 pm |
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Have you booted from a OSX CD / DVD and tested a firewire HD?
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 10:01 pm |
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That's the only thing I didn't do.. I thought trying to boot to a firewire hd would be the same.. But I will try this tomorrow.. Thanks.
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 8:21 pm |
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Little update.
I didn't get a chance to try a boot cd on those, however, I did have a pci firewire card. I plugged it in to the one mac, and firewire devices worked on this card. I then tried plugging into the onboard firewire, and they now worked... For some reason this card must have kick started something.. I took out the firewire card, and the onboard firewire still worked..
So I try the same thing on the next machine I was having trouble with. The firewire card worked fine with firewire devices, but the onboard still wouldn't work. So I just left the card in this machine...
Not sure what is going on here... The teacher has a feeling one of his cameras is causing the firewire ports to go, but I don't know if that is the case...
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Post subject: Re: Firewire no longer working Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 2:46 pm |
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