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Quicker mounting of external Firewire drives
Authored by: lestmak on Jul 30, '03 06:50:55PM

Certainly one of the problems I've found with slow mounting happens when I put the computer to sleep, switch of the HD, and forget to turn it on again before reawakening. Basically, it would take an age with a certain degree of disk activity in the firewire HD before it's mounted again on the desktop.

Sometimes I've managed to speed it up by opening the disk utility and rescanning for new drives



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Quicker mounting of external Firewire drives - Hooray!
Authored by: krishna on Jul 31, '03 08:52:08PM

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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