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Repair a broken FireWire interface
I had an issue similar to this with my flash card reader. What I usually do is:
Repair a broken FireWire interface
The same problem started to happen to me recently, and the only change was the addition of a $10 lexar (purple) firewire compact flash card reader.
Repair a broken FireWire interface
WOW! This worked for me. From time to time, many of my system apps will lock up (beachball) after what I know to be an attempt at accessing one of my many firewire drives, which have a tendency to overheat and become unresponsive until I flip the switch of the offending drive off then on. Guessing is easy enough using touch (which one inspires "ouch!"). Once I address the right drive, the beachball becomes pointer and the Finder lodges its usually complaint. please note: I'm not a total dope… this system is non-critical—a convenient personal file-server—and all the data is redundantly backed up. I use a fan in the summer but these failures are rare enough and more would be overkill. The overheating inspired beachball just struck a few minutes ago, and after resetting the two "ouch?", faced with 5 more drives and no likely pending IO tasks on the bus, I unplugged the lot at the computer… So cferron, thanks for the contribution! Your instructions were clear and spot on. |
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