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Charge FireWire iPods on sleeping Macs
Authored by: atlas723 on Mar 08, '06 06:29:06PM

Don't know if this will help anybody, but this is my experience. I have a 2.0 DP G5, a 3G 40GB firewire iPod, and a 4G 20GB USB iPod. I can charge my 3G iPod using the firewire A/C adapter and sync/charge my 3G iPod with the dock that came with the iPod. When connected to my G5 and put to sleep, my 3G iPod loses its charge. Another anomaly I've found is that when the USB cable for the 4G USB iPod is instead connected to the dock, I can sync my 3G firewire iPod, but it quickly loses it's charge, sleep or no sleep. When I say quick, I mean my fully charged 3G firewire iPod will drain completely in 30 mins. The 4G USB iPod will charge over the firewire A/C adapter, but not sync/charge when connected to the G5.



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