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Oct 2, 2015 7:57 PM in response to bigbookjoeby jayv.,FireWire 400 and 800 are still supported in El Capitan.
Restart your Mac and connect the drives one at a time, see if they are recognized.
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Nov 16, 2015 12:59 PM in response to bigbookjoeby Neal Fox,I'm having the same problem. I'm on an old Mac Pro running el capitan. None of my firewire devices are working under FW. I have to plug them all into the usb 2 ports. That means 1. not enough ports and 2. much slower.
Anybody find a solution?
And I did try reconnecting them after restart one at a time.
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Nov 16, 2015 1:40 PM in response to Neal Foxby Old Toad,Reset the SMC according to this Apple document: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) on your Mac - Apple Support
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Nov 16, 2015 1:43 PM in response to bigbookjoeby benwiggy,I have FireWire disks and FireWire audio interfaces running without problem on El Capitan. Apple did not remove support for FW.
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Nov 16, 2015 7:27 PM in response to Neal Foxby bigbookjoe,I finally went to zero and a) reset PRAM, b) did a cold restart, and c) reseated the cables to and between my firewire drives.
They then could be seen by El Capitan and I have been able to access the data.
Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner.
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Apr 19, 2016 1:34 PM in response to bigbookjoeby Johnro,Several responses say Apple supports firewire, and Apple says El Capitan supports FW (but it doesn't say whether it supports both 400 & 800). I had Garageband 6.0.5 receiving signal from a MOTU analog to digital interface. When I (foolishly) upgraded to GB 10, I lost the signal. Having dumped GB10, I still have a signal coming into the Macbook Pro, but nothing on the (reinstated) GB 6.0.5, or, for that matter Digital Performer (another digital audio workstation software). I would say the problem is MOTU's driver, but I got a signal before using the same driver. Apple has no idea what the problem is, so I'm going to roll back out of El Cap and hope. Burden of the message: If you don't have to change OS, don't. Also, if you have any experience with DAW (garageband before GB10, ProTools, Logic Pro, Digital Performer), look closely at GB10 before downloading. It makes life easy for people want to use loops, but it doesn't look like a classic DAW, so there will be a learning curve.
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Apr 19, 2016 9:27 PM in response to Johnroby Barney-15E,I've got 5 FW800 hard drives and a FW400 iSight camera daisy-chained, all working with El Capitan. I'm not sure if I still have a FW400 drive somewhere to test, but I will look around and try it out if I do have one.
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Apr 20, 2016 8:28 AM in response to Barney-15Eby Johnro,Thanks for the reply. As I noted, it could be the driver that enables sound from my digital-audio converter. Apple couldn't figure it out, so I have rolled back to Yosemite.