[rescue] USB / Firewire

[vraptor at employees.org]

On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Michael Schiller wrote:

>"Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366" wrote:
>
>> Can you not drop into the open firmware prompt on the Mac and list the
>> devices?
>>
>> You would be able to tell if the card was even recognized.
>
>I have a Powermac 5500 on these systems you can't easily get to the open
>firmware prompt. The card appears to be recognized, but it's just not quite
>working right. If it wasn't for the fact that I know the cable I was using is
>good I would suspect the cable being bad.

Firmware prompt on a Mac?  What's that? ;-)

Did you check the System Profiler to see if the FW and USB were
showing up as busses on the Mac?  When I was reading various Mac
boards to decide what I was going to buy, there were a number of
posts on the power requirements of various FW/FW-USB combo cards.
(xlr8yourmac.com is a good resource).

I would try cleaning the connectors in the slot.  If that doesn't
work, I'd try it in a different machine to see if the card is
defective.  Maybe a more modern Mac?  Or, if you have a Windoze
2K/XP[1] box available, you should be able to plug it into that
and it should "just work".

[1] Win98 doesn't support USB, but 98SE does.  I can't recall if
98SE supports FW w/out manufacturer drivers or not.

=Nadine=