Firewire and external drive

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Firewire and external drive

I bought an additional hard drive. I daisy chained it to existing external hard drive which is connect to my mac via firewire. My mac now doesn't see either drive. If I plug original external to USB my mac finds. How can I get my mac to find my external drive again via firewire? Thanks.

G4, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Feb 23, 2008 2:26 PM

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Answer 1

Feb 23, 2008 2:56 PM in response to Community User

Hi! Do the FW drives have separate power suppliers? If not they are drawing too much power and need to be connected via a powered hub. Tom

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Douggo

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Feb 23, 2008 9:02 PM in response to Community User

If your FireWire drive is one that has USB and FireWire interfaces, you can't connect another drive on a different type of bus than the one used to connect to the host computer. If I'm reading what you're saying, it sounds like the new drive is USB and you're trying to daisy-chain that with the FW drive. Not going to work.

-Douggo

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