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Firewire devices not showing up

by johnforz Sep 11, 2007 1:09PM PDT

I have 3 external HD's, and an M-Audio Firewire interface connected to my dual 2.5 G5 - OS 10.4.6.

None of my external drives are showing up on my desktop, and my interface is not showing up in my audio settings. In addition, the FIREWIRE secion of the system profiler has no information in it at all... it simply says "FireWire Bus:"

I ran a hardware diagnostic, and everything passed both the quick test and the full test.

I have tried numerous firewire cables, and all of my ports (FW 400 and 800)

I am very alarmed by this, I have zapped PRAM and repaired all permissions in Disk Utility.

please, any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks in advance,
john

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hmmm... just for grins,

by boya84 Sep 11, 2007 3:04PM PDT

check in Preferences... under Network... "Show Network Port Configurations"... Is "Built-In FireWire" checkmarked (on)?

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