firewire 400 and leopard

[joekix]

a few minutes ago, i tried to connect an external hd using a firewire 400 cable to my mbp(10.5.6) and it wouldn't mount. all i got was a beach ball in finder. the same external hd worked just fine using usb and firewire 800. it also works fine on my imac g4 running 10.4.11 through the fw400 cable. is this some kind of incompatibility with leopard?

 

[Sun Baked]

If it is bus powered, then Leopard may simply be turning the drive off due to updated bus monitoring under Leopard.

 

[joekix]

well one drive is powered and the other isn't. neither work with fw400 on leopard but work fine with tiger.

 

[joekix]

after further testing, the powered drive is mounting, and the non-powered isn't. maybe lack of power?

 

[Sun Baked]

after further testing, the powered drive is mounting, and the non-powered isn't. maybe lack of power?

Time for the Power Brick.

If it works under USB and FW800, don't know why it won't under Leopard using FW400.

 

[Sun Baked]

oops