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Quicker mounting of external Firewire drives
Authored by: regulus on Jul 30, '03 01:33:18PM

I don't have the long mounting time issue either.

My tip for mounting hard drives is as follows. I usually leave my firewire cable always plugged in and find it a little painful to unplug, turn on my external drive, and plug the cable back in to mount the drive. I've found it easier to just put the computer to sleep, turn on the hard drive, and then wake the computer. This mounts it without the uplug/plug in cable stuff.



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Quicker mounting of external Firewire drives
Authored by: Az Da VisualizA on Jul 30, '03 05:54:39PM

Maybe it's just the hardware, because I have B/W G3 tower and the only time I'm able to mount an external drive is during a restart, same goes for D/V camera's and iPod. With the newer Mac models it just mounts right when I connect.



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Quicker mounting of external Firewire drives - Hooray!
Authored by: krishna on Jul 31, '03 08:53:58PM

I had stuck a lite-on cd-rw into an external firewire enclosure and on power-up it would always show a solid green activity light -- I have to unplug the firewire cable and replug it in to get the light to start flashing, then turn off (and become usable). Yesterday I looked for a command to reset the firewire bus, and all I could find were API calls.

I now have another problem; with an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse connected to my Powerbook G4, I can't force it to sleep (Blue Apple->Sleep). It goes to sleep for a second, then wakes back up. However, this 'wink' was enough to reset the firewire bus; power on firewire cd-rw, solid green light, put computer to sleep, computer wakes up, and activity light flashes and cd-rw working!

Many Thanks,
Krishna Sethuraman



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