spinnerlys Guest Feb 13, 2010 #2 Try this, it helped me before when such problems occurred. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
spinnerlys Guest Feb 13, 2010 #4 -aggie- said: What would SMC have to do with an external HD? Click to expand... I don't really know and the SMC knowledge base seems to have no info on that anymore. But when I had problems connecting Firewire HDDs to my iMac or MacBook (Pro) it worked like a charm. Don't know about the new MBPs though, with their non-removeable batteries.
-aggie- said: What would SMC have to do with an external HD? Click to expand... I don't really know and the SMC knowledge base seems to have no info on that anymore. But when I had problems connecting Firewire HDDs to my iMac or MacBook (Pro) it worked like a charm. Don't know about the new MBPs though, with their non-removeable batteries.