• Apple OS X

  FireWire External HD won’t show up

  Posted by Seth Siegler on April 21, 2007 at 10:28 pm

  Hey everyone,

  I am in mac hell for some reason lately…

  Yesterday I bought a new FireWire 350GB Hard Drive. It’s a Western Digital MyBook.

  My firewire port was working just fine with the sony video camera but for some reason the computer will not recognize the HD. At all. In the system profiler, it says that the port is empty.

  I tried all the normal fixes: Restarting, power cycling, disk utility (Didn’t even show up in there).

  So I returned the drive and got a new one. Same model. Same problem. I plugged the camera back in to test the port again, it works fine. HD…no love.

  The computer is a Mac Mini G4 with just one FW port.

  Doesn anyone have any ideas? Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

  Gary Milligan replied 19 years ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
• 4 Replies

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  Seth Siegler

  April 21, 2007 at 10:29 pm

  Oh yeah, I’m running OSX 10.4.9
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  Gary Milligan

  April 22, 2007 at 4:06 pm

  Have you used Disk Utility to format the drive?
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  Seth Siegler

  April 22, 2007 at 5:27 pm

  I actually can’t even do that because the computer doesn’t recognize it as even hooked up. It doesn’t show up anywhere.
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  Gary Milligan

  April 23, 2007 at 12:37 am

  Maybe a bad cable? If not, I’m out of suggestions…. good luck.

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