Fire Wire HD problem

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Ockham's Razor - 12 Dec 2006 17:31 GMT

Yesterday for the first time in about a month I hooked up my FW HD
(LaCie) to my iMac 17" G5, OSX 10.3.9, and did some back ups without a
problem. this am the computer would not start up. After unhooking every
external, and re starting several times the problem was the FW HD. This
had not occurred before.

If I hook up the FW HD after the computer is going there does not seem
to be a problem.

The FW HD seems to be recording material OK and is making no strange
sounds.

Does this situation indicate a potential problem?

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Erik Richard Sørensen - 12 Dec 2006 18:41 GMT

Hei...

> Yesterday for the first time in about a month I hooked up my FW HD
> (LaCie) to my iMac 17" G5, OSX 10.3.9, and did some back ups without a
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> The FW HD seems to be recording material OK and is making no strange
> sounds.

It might be a problem in the system, if the Firewire extensions are
corrupted, or blocked in one or the other way. I have had the problem
myself once. It disappeared after running the latest 10.3.9 Combo Update
once more.

> Does this situation indicate a potential problem?

Hm, I'm not likely to think so, if you can copy, paste, move or delete
in quite normal ways, but there can of course be a smaller problem with
either the B-tree or Extend B-tree, so if you have DiskWarrior 3.0.3 or
later, you should try to make a new directory file with this by booting
from the DiskWarrior CD.

cheers, Erik Richard

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Clark Martin - 18 Dec 2006 17:37 GMT

> Yesterday for the first time in about a month I hooked up my FW HD
> (LaCie) to my iMac 17" G5, OSX 10.3.9, and did some back ups without a
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>
> Does this situation indicate a potential problem?

Make sure your iMac's boot disk is the Startup Disk (System Preferences
- Startup Disk). If it isn't, it may be attempting to boot off the FW
drive but it may not be a valid boot drive.

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Fire Wire HD problem