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bluelineswinger

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Oct 22, 2008
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Hi all,

I have a unibody Macbook Pro. I've been having some problems recently with the firewire port. I'd plug different hard drives in. First it had trouble seeing and mounting them, until I did a restart, and now it seems that the computer just stops communicating with the drive, suddenly being unable to access it mid-process.

I don't think this is a problem with the drive because it's done this on two separate drives. I also started using the USB port on the drive and I don't experience the same problems. I am experiencing a new problem with the USB, where the drive unmounts completely and disappears from the Disk Utility without warning.

Does anyone have any idea how to reset my ports so that I can see whether the issue is with my computer or my drive?

Thanks guys!
-Chris
 
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