Firewire deck conflict

[Walter Biscardi]

[Dave Stalion] “While FCP was open, I unplugged my Panasonic AJ-SD93 pro50 firewire
from the front 400 port on my machine.
Well…now upon re-entry my G5 won’t see the deck in system profiler, FCP won’t open if the deck’s plugged in, the 1394 cable appears fine.”

Was the deck turned on? Will anything else work in that FW400 port? If not, you fried the port if you pulled the cable out with the deck turned on.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Keith Larsen]

Hopefully you didn’t fry the card in the deck. For the HD1200a it specifically warns you from pulling the firewire while the deck has power and I’ve had a few clients do exactly that and kill the card in the deck. Remember: FW carries POWER. If you have been spared frying the card in the deck, try resetting your mac hardware by re-booting and holding the COMMAN-OPT-P-R keys and letting the Mac startup chime ring about 3 times. Let go and it’ll boot. Hopefully that’s all that it’ll need. Try a different FW port as well.

Keith Larsen
Founder
Connecticut Final Cut Pro User Group
CTFCPUG

[Dave Stalion]

Ouevey,
the deck was not on when I unplugged it BUT
I loaned it to a co-worker and I’d bet the farm he did.
control reboot didn’t work and the deck won’t work in any port.
Off it goes to Panasonic.
Thanks guys for the help
Dave