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Firewire Ports not working on Mac OS 10.8.5
Mac Pro 2x2.6 Quad-Core Intel Xeon
20GB RAM ATI Radeon HD 5770 Mac OS 10.8.5 Pro Tools HD 10.3.8 All of the sudden all my Firewire ports on my Mac stopped booting drives. (they're powering up) I'm sure the HD is healthy and the cables are good. The HD boots fine on my laptop (Mac OS 10.9) There are others on the Apple Support Forum that have had this issue but, no solutions! Does anybody know a fix for this? Thank you, Mark |
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Re: Firewire Ports not working on Mac OS 10.8.5
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Re: Firewire Ports not working on Mac OS 10.8.5
I apologize for my confusing writing...
I'm not attempting to boot from my FW800 HDs. I'm trying to connect and mount external drives via the computer's FW800 ports only for data transfer. These external FW800 drives and all my FW cables work on my OS10.9 Mac Laptop but, suddenly not on my Pro Mac OS 10.8.5. The external drives power up, but that don't mount on the desk top or become visible in Disk Utility. I've read on the Apple support pages that there have been others with this issue but, nobody had a solution. Could I repair the drivers for OS 10.8.5? Thank you for your help! |
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Re: Firewire Ports not working on Mac OS 10.8.5
The problem drives - are they standard Mac formatted or something else? Which computer were they formatted on?
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Re: Firewire Ports not working on Mac OS 10.8.5
Thanks for your reply!
I formatted these on my MacBook Pro OS 10.9.5 as Mac OS Extended -Journaled GUID Is this an issue? If so, how do I get these drives to be mountable on both of my computers as Mac OS drives? |
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Re: Firewire Ports not working on Mac OS 10.8.5
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You're going straight FW connection and not through a Thunderbolt to FW adapter are you? Again that shouldn't matter but you never know. Hopefully the FW ports in the OSX 10.8.5 machine haven't died. |
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Re: Firewire Ports not working on Mac OS 10.8.5
Thanks for your suggestions. This has our studio's tech stumped also!
There are others on Apple Support and 9-5 Mac that have had similar issues that have showed up randomly in OS 10.8.5. Nobody has posted a solution yet. If we figure this out, we'll share our path to success. |
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