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Quicker mounting of external Firewire drives
Authored by: ig on Jul 30, '03 02:00:57PM

It may not be your system software. Some older, or just badly made, firewire cases are just problematic for any OS to handle. Also, sometimes the cable is barely functioning. I have a cluster of 5 firewire drives, all made at different times, and by differnent manufactureres. Some of them may even be pre-oxford 911!!

Some of them show up right away, and some require a lot of fiddling (including sometimes using the above tip), or turning them off/on, plugging/unplugging, restarting, etc.
For the oldest two, it is a big hassle.



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