I'm using a Macbook 13" white running 10.5.8. Trying to connect a Glyph external hard drive using a firewire 800 to 400 cable to Macbook. Cable and Glyph work on an older mac but my Macbook doesn't see it. Any ideas?
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Hello,
Reset the Firewire bus
If your Firewire or USB isn't recognizing any device. A solution which has worked for some whose hard drive became invisible in 10.4 was simply to follow these four steps to reset the Firewire/USB bus:
1. Shut the machine down.
2. UNPLUG the power lead to the computer and any firewire/USB drive.
3. leave it for 10 minutes.
4. Connect back up and reboot.
http://www.macmaps.com/firewirebug2.html
Not sure, but a Laptop may need the Battery removed as well as power.
Message was edited by: BDAqua
firewire 400 doesn't appear
