my three week old 2.3ghz dualcore died today. rip

[Scott Thomas]

Firewire drive? What happened?

[Ben Oliver]

i think it got a good zap of static electricity. the on-site fixit people should be here soon.

[Arnie Schlissel]

Ouch! Maybe I should stop rubbing the cat on my sweater before I plug stuff into the mac…

Arnie
https://www.arniepix.com

[Don Greening]

I duno………your cat probably likes the attention. The only drawback to that is the looks from people when you answer the door and Fluffly is still stuck to the front of your sweater from the static cling.

– Don

[Scott Thomas]

So let me see if I have this straight; you have a cat named FireWire, and you tried to plug him into the computer?

Oh wait, your not Ben, nevermind. 🙂

[Richard Boghosian]

Firewire is not hot swappable, or unplugable. No mater what the common wisdom is, both ends of a firewire connection/cable carry power, and a simple mis-step can cause a short and kill the firewire board on either the mac or the peripheral. FWIW.

Richard Boghosian
Bogh AV Productions

[Don Greening]

Richard,

You read my mind. I’ve never trusted FW to be used in any other fashion other than to treat it just like an electrical connection. To connect, turn everything off first. To disconnect, turn everything off first.

– Don