Wednesday, May 11, 2005

For several months now I've been having problems with my Mac's firewire ports. Originally I noticed that David's iPod wouldn't update and put it down to a dodgy firewire cable but having got my hands on a replacement found that it still didn't work. I read loads of forums and had pretty much decided that it was probably a fault with the iPod and pretty much forgot about it.

That was until last week when I bought a Lacie CD burner on eBay. It's a pretty cool little external thing that uses the power of Firewire to communicate. Trouble is that once i'd plugged it in it failed to communicate. Power lights worked but nothing else.

More trips to forums suggested that it was to do with an Apple Update some months ago that could have affected the drive before I got it; others suggested resetting the mac while other said I needed to sneak inside the mac and press some magic little button that you're obviously never meant to know about, never mind actually dare press it. I got pretty wrapped up in the whole thing for a few days and didn't get anyway at all. I gave up.

The other day i suddenly realised that if it wasn't the drive or the cable then it had to be the Firewire ports themselves. So I surfed over to the 'Bay to find myself an affordable Firewire card to stick into one off the vacant slots round the back of the Mac. 24 hours later the card arrived, 2 minutes later it was installed and 30 seconds after that I was burning CDs as if there was no tomorrow.

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