1394 port stopped working

[Noah Kadner]

Sounds like a camera that needs repair. Where is here?

Noah

[Jason Greene]

Las Vegas

Thanks

[Itamar Kool]

When my 1394 port started to be flaky it turned out to be that the firewire cable was broke….

Kool En De Anderen
MAC Pro/Kona LHe/Apple FCS 2/Adobe PPCS3/Huge fibrechannel
http://www.koolendeanderen.nl

[Jason Greene]

I’ve tried a new cable also, no go for me.

[Paul Jay]

Is it perhaps a new iMac? The black/metal one?

I also have this issues with P2 firewire on new iMacs.

Not on any other mac.

a normal DV camera works fine right? or any other firewire device.

It’s just the camera keeps saying disconnect right?

[Jason Greene]

Sorry, the problem I’m having is on a Mac Pro tower, and a year-old MacBook. I’ve also connected it to my PC, and it won’t read from there either (is supposed to show up as a new drive letter, but doesn’t). Thanks.

[James Brady]

Did anyone ever figure this one out? Our studio is having the same issue with our firewire equipment. Our HVX200/FS-100 combo mysteriously stopped working as well… then we noticed other items failing. It’s like a 1394 virus!

Testing on several NLE’s concludes that IEEE 1394 output has failed on the following equipment in our studio:

Panasonic HVX200
Sony HVR-M10U Deck
Sony DSR-11 deck

We also have a Sony HVR-Z1U and GV-D300 Deck… these still work, but we have no explanation for the others. Any ideas?

[Gary Adcock]

[James Brady] “Testing on several NLE’s concludes that IEEE 1394 output has failed on the following equipment in our studio: “

Ok
how are you testing this stuff?

these are smart devices that need to be turned off before plugging them in, is someone in your office has not bothered to treat them correctly it could be that your host has a fried FW port.

have you tried them on multiple computers?
have you tried testing with a 3rd party card?

FW carries power also and if you are sloppy about the connection yes you can fry the port.

gary adcock
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[James Brady]

[gary adcock] “FW carries power also and if you are sloppy about the connection yes you can fry the port.”

This is a grim prospect.

Does this mean the device must necessarily be turned off before its firewire cable is removed? …and is this to include shutting down the workstation on the other end of the FW cable as well?

[gary adcock] “Ok
how are you testing this stuff?”

We have tested video capture from every device on each of four different NLEs with the same result. In fact, video capture and deck control aside, the workstations don’t even recognize that a FW device has been plugged in.

I’m starting to suspect your power-down theory.

[Jason Greene]

It eventually worked after disconnecting the FW400 4-pin portion of the cable from the camera, and reconnecting it over and over, about twenty times. The record pause indicator showed up in the monitor. We swapped cables and still experienced it, but finally were at a place where once it shows the indicator, we do not bump the camera at all. Makes it difficult for handheld operation though. A friend looked at it and said the port on the camera doesn’t hold the cable well, and that it could be replaced. He ordered the camera manual (not the normal instructional manual, but the geek version that has all of the boards, components, soldering parts, etc.) and will be swapping out this part soon. It’s a relatively cheap part.