MacBook Pro :: FW400 Port Not Recognizing Any Peripherals
Aug 27, 2010
I recently bought a used (early 2008) MBPro 15" 2.5 SR to do some video editing. Unfortunately it will not recognize my Sony DV camera, or an external HD connected via FW400 or my 12" PB booted in target disk mode. The camera and the hard drive both mount instantly on my 12" PB and a friends 15" PB. Also, when I check the Firewire status under System Profiler all it says is: Warning: Unable to list FireWire devices (in red). This is regardless of what is connected to the port or if nothing is connected to the port. I have tried rebooting the PRAM and changing the Firewire port's network preference to OFF as recommended by this post: [URL]
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Feb 25, 2012
I have the latest model of the MacBook Air 13" (mid-2011 model). As recommended by the Apple Store rep, I bought the minidisplay to DVI adpater to connect my 20" Viewsonic VG2030wm. Unfortunately, the MacBook Air 13" is not recognising the monitor. It doesn't detect it at all.
I know the monitor and the DVI cable work because it works with my original MacBook Air (2008 model) that uses a micro-DVI to DVI adapter. My last resort is to take the new MacBook Air, the Viewsonic monitor, cables and adpaters to my local Apple Store to see if they can figure out it out. However, I won't be able to go until two days later when I have access to a car.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 13", 4GB RAM, 128GB Solid-state
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Aug 4, 2010
I was playing Starcraft 2 on my MBA and the computer just shut down all of a sudden. Then when I booted back up the USB mouse I had plugged in doesnt work. I've since restarted and plugged in various things and it still doesn't work.
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Jan 16, 2010
I am trying to download a file from a cruzer micro 8gb thumb drive to the quickbooks program on my parallels VM. The VM is running XP. It keeps telling me to close the application that is using the cruzer. No apps are running except for the finder . This is on an '07 macbook with leopard.I also cannot find the cruzer on the mac os anywhere.
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May 4, 2012
I have an iMac 27 inches, all was working fine, however, since this AM the ethernet port is not working thus I am unable to go online. I know a heavy thunderstorm happened last night. The machine is working perfect I can go on line ONLY via wifi.
I did check cables with another computer, and modem is working fine.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Jun 7, 2012
bluetooth peripherals won't connect
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Jul 3, 2012
Can USB2 peripherals (hard drives, USB microphones, et al) be used with a MacBook Air that only has USB3 jacks?
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Aug 16, 2010
I have a new macbook pro and after reading various threads I want to buy a gtech 320gb external drive. The only one I can track down is the firewire400. (at a reasonable price) The MB is FW800. will the FW400 work OK and is the speed significantly slower?
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May 5, 2009
Have downloaded and burned both 32/64bit versions in case of driver support issues.
As I custom configured my iMac, I only have wireless keyboard/ wireless mighty mouse.
Is it possible to go through a windows 7 RC install without wired peripherals? ie, is the bluetooth initiated during the install process?
Using a 2009 iMac, 3.06/4GB/1TB/4850
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Nov 12, 2009
across an OS 9 disk and it boots and all on my iBook clamshell. Just when I get to the screen where I choose what HD to install it on, there is 'no peripherals'
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May 5, 2008
i have a mac mini which up until recently was working fine. now it won't read my external lacie drive, my lacie d2 burner or my m-audio firewire solo. i've tried rebooting, unplugging, replugging, switching cables...all to no avail. i hate to think that i have several hundred dollars worth of paperweights now. the system profiler recognizes that i have a firewire port, only when i plug something in it doesn't read it. are the ports on my peripherals fried?
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Jun 24, 2009
I was convinced that I'd find an answer to this question on the forum, but even mroogle couldn't help me. I often have to use firewire target mode with my wife's MacBook (or friends' computers), and most of them only have firewire 400 ports. My new Mac Pro only has firewire 800 ports (which I find completely insane, considering the very useful FWTDM and the near ubiquity of FW400 on Macs...). Since FW400 PCI cards are so cheap (at least those on eBay), I thought it would be easier to install such a card in my Mac Pro. But the question remains: can all FW400 cards allow the target mode?
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Dec 29, 2009
What happens when you have a FW400 repeater in a FW800 bus but no active FW400 peripherals?
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Apr 11, 2012
I just bought a Dual 1,25 Powermac. Included were the original restore discs. I've installed the OS 9 package, but when I try to boot from OS 9, I get the flashing question mark on startup.
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PowerMac, Mac OS 9.2.x, Dual 1.25 with Firewire 400
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Apr 14, 2009
This is something I've been wondering for a long time. I seem to have a lot of screen-related issues with the Pros that I sit in front of in the main. Brightness controls going haywire displays not turning on, etc. There is also the odd attached USB device lockup, but I'd been putting this down to the devices themselves and the occasional, app-level instability of Leopard. More recently though, I've been seeing a pattern that's leading me to suspect the Pro's more than the peripherals. Is there a documented case of possible USB hub connection issues in (fully patched) 2008 Pros? The most frequent issue is monitors not behaving as expected when the system is booted until the monitors themselves are unplugged from power. There are also less frequent but present problems where iPods lock up, keyboards stop working, etc. I can't really abstract the problem down to an OS issue or a hardware issue, but the need for me to unplug the monitors seems to indicate that there is some sort of USB initialisation issue - as with the other minor problems I experience with other monitor-connected USB peripherals. Since I only use multimonitor environments as far as my Pros are concerned, all USB connections are usually made from the backs of the screens. So the big question is is this a screen USB hub fault, or a main-unit intermittent fault? All of the monitors I'm using have been to Applecare for one reason or another, although I'm not sure if they check everything in these repairs.
Can anyone else shed more light on this issue? It's pretty hard to replicate reliably and it's not been something I can go to Apple with any degree of certainty, yet the little minihoops I have with this problem (and oh so many other Apple issues, but that's by the by) irritate me immensely in comparison to my rock-solid, near-zero-such-issue, non-Apple environments which I also use daily.
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Sep 20, 2009
can you do this with an airport extreme or time capsule? I assumed that by connecting the USB line of my ScanSnap scanner to these devices, I would be making them wireless (i.e., so I wouldn't have to plug the USB into my actual computer). It doesn't seem to work for some reason. Is it b/c that's not possible, or am I doing something wrong?
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Aug 12, 2007
i'd like to get the ATV but want to know what to expect. I hope that a FW 400 HD would be ok for streaming all content (as music is seamless with just the airport express), but it would even more sweet if i could just get an new AE and set up an external media library to stream over Airdisk.
so, is Airdisk and it's USB interface limitations still enough for the ATV? would be watching high quality DVD rips and lossless music files mostly.
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Sep 27, 2009
I basically need to connect an older iMac to a new MBP but they both have different FW connections - I always get confused when it comes to cables so if anyone can point me in the right direction it'd be grand,
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Nov 9, 2007
1. I've just purchased the Formac Raven 1TB Drive (Firewire 400&800)
(Formatted into 2 Partitions Mac OS Extended Jour)2. I'm trying to copy large amounts of data (100-200GB) from either my 2 internal drives on my Dual 2.0Ghz G5 (OS 10.4.10) or from the USB 2.0 Freecom 500GB Drive to the Raven 1TB Drive.
3. After 4-20GB of data has been copied the copy window just sits there and won't go any further! I have to turn the Raven off and then back on again to stop it!
4. I have tried both FW400 and FW800 ports on my G5, but still the same problem.
5. I have verified all drives and repaired any errors and fixed permissions.
6. The Raven have been low level formatted, and split into 2 partitions.
7. I have a MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo (OS 10.4.10) , and have copied 200GB from it to the Raven without any probs!
8. Any ideas why the G5 won't allow me to copy large amounts of data?
Single file copying is fine! eg. Disk images of 4-7GB
Information:
MBP C2D 2.16Ghz, G5 Dual 2.0Ghz, iPod Mini 4Gb, iPod Nano 8Gb
Mac OS X (10.4.10)
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Aug 11, 2009
How many of you would like to see a HDMI Port? Why the miniDisplay port? Why not remove ethernet jack and miniDisplay port and replace it with a HDMI port. That way one HDMI cable feeds digital video AND audio. Am I the only one thinking of this?
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Jul 3, 2012
I have just ordered a new MacBook Pro and it does not have enough USB ports for my needs.If I have a USB 3.0 hub and I mix USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 peripherals on it, will the whole hub/computer USB 3.0 port be slowed down to USB 2.0 speeds?I am thinking back to Firewire, if you have Firewire 800 and 400 devices on the same chain, the whole chain slowed to Firewire 400 speeds.I don't think this is the same with USB but wanted some reassurance..
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7), MacBook Air, Mac Mini
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Dec 7, 2009
I may soon buy one of the newer generation iMacs that drop the FW400, includes 800 only. On my current Mac, I have a FW800 drive and a FW 400 drive. I use the 400 for time machine as speed is less important. My current iMac has a 400 & 800 connector. I have tested connecting the 400 to the 800 drive via daisy chaining, so everything is pulling off the 800 connector, so this assures me I can do this with the new iMac. However, Does it slow down your 800 drive when it has a 400 chained off of it? Or, if the 800 is the first drive connected to your iMac, do you maintain full speed?
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Nov 22, 2009
I am having issues with my Dual Band 1TB time capsule for some reason the damn ports won't forward I have enabled the correct settings with the ip address and the ports, but when I use a program to test if the ports are open they are always closed, regardless on pc or mac. Does anyone have a solution to this? I even reset my Time capsule to see if it would work, but no luck.
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Jun 29, 2009
Here's the deal, I am so frustrated. I am trying to open port 59152 for Transmission on my Macbook Pro. I have the latest releases of everything, I am using an Airport Extreme base station with an older airport to boost my signal/connect my tivo w/out a wireless adapter.
I have managed to get it open in the past but there was an update or something a month or two ago and at first it was still open and then it closed. I don't know what changed with the update, all I know is that I did n't change anything.
I have granted permission for Transmission to accept incoming connections on the firewall, little snitch allows it too. I have lighthouse, which worked at first but now I don't even know why I bother having it run. I have the port mapped through the airport utility.
PLEASE don't say to go to portforward.com because they haven't updated the Airport section since Leopard came out, yet every search I do someone repeatedly tells the person needing help to go to [URL]
I am going to attach some screen captures so you can see what I've got going on and maybe point out something I've missed.
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Apr 16, 2009
When I got my external drive, I backed up my copy of leopard onto my drive so that if I lost the disks, I'd still have a copy.Such a thing has happended, and I need to do a clean install.Is it possible to install (reformat and install) from a FW400 drive?I know its possible to burn it to a dual layered dvd, but I don't think my iMac can burn them, and the fact that they're stupidly expensive.
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Mar 16, 2010
Relevant newbie to the mac world. I have a MBP late 2009. I bought a third party Mini display port to HDMI converter so I can hook the MBP to my 46" Samsung screen.
This works fine, no major issues here. However the picture is not great. I compared watching a standard definition TV show through the MBP then burnt it onto a DVD. The DVD (using the PS3 as my DVD drive, connected via HDMI) had superior quality than through the MBP.
Also the picture does not quite fill the screen. There is a small black border running all the way around the screen. Does not sound significant but when doing the same comparison as above, you notice the difference when via DVD the movie fills the screen. I have played around with the resolution settings. Those that fill the screen chop bits of the mac desktop off, so thats no good either.
So I am wondering why this is? Is it because the mini display port is not a DVI port, hence I am not getting true HD quality picture? How can I overcome this if at all. I'm thinking of getting a mac mini as a media hub/HTPC but want to ensure I dont encounter the same problems.
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Mar 21, 2008
is there a adapter with both a usb port and an eternet port?
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Dec 31, 2010
I'm trying to use a Blue Snowball USB microphone to record in Garage Band (run on Mac OSX Snow Leopard). However, Garageband is not recognizing the Snowball when I go to Preferences.
In addition my mac is not recognizing the snowball when I go under sound within system preferences.
The power light is illuminated on the Snowball. I tried the Blue on my friend's mac computer and it also did not recognize the mic.
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Jan 22, 2009
I plugged in my microphone into the mic port on the left side of the computer. I am trying to use it for my Ustream feed but it is not recognizing it.
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