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Firewire suspect
Authored by: robertm on Mar 14, '04 01:11:29PM

All of the other suggestions mentioned didn't work for me.

But after unhooking the firewire cable and rerouting it away from the "cable forest" behind my Mac, my iPod mounted everytime.

I had a quick look on the web and this seems to be a common problem. I am guessing the iPod hardware works ok and files aren't getting corrupted all that often. For anyone who used to use a lot of SCSI devices this will seem similar.

So if getting a good firewire connection is the problem, here are some easy tips to try and isolate the problem:

  1. reroute the firewire cable(s) away from video, power cables etc.
  2. unhook other [firewire] devices.
  3. then, try a different firewire port.
  4. try a different cable.
  5. try a different iPod.
  6. try a different Mac.


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