RickyDee
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Q: FW800 port spits fire????

Hi, Couldn't decide where to post so since I'm an FCP user .... I connected my LaCie 2T drive I've been using for 6 mos. thru its top FW800 port and sparks and even a small flame flew out the second FW800 port on the drive. The drive still works but that port is fried. I would have assumed its the LaCie but recently daisy chaining my video hard drives has not been working and I've had to connect each singularly. Any possibility it may be crazyness from the Mac's FW800 port. My G5 is 6 years old now so ....

Dual 2.5 G5, 4GB, nVidia 256MB, Mac OS X (10.4.10), Final Cut Studio

Posted on Feb 3, 2011 12:54 PM

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  • by harry3232007,

    harry3232007 harry3232007 Nov 15, 2011 11:06 AM in response to Kenjiito
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    Nov 15, 2011 11:06 AM in response to Kenjiito

    I can't see how it could be the battery pack. I reckon you have fried one of your Firewire ports. You say "it still sparked/smoked when i tried to connect it" - to clarify, what are you connecting? A normal Firewire drive? To which port are you connecting it? The front or the back? 400 or 800?

     

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    Harry.

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