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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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