MacBook Pro :: USB Recognized Only When Connected Before Boot
Nov 4, 2010I have a 17' MacBook Pro and when I connect my PNY 8gb USB it does not recognize it. It only recognizes it if I boot the Mac with the USB already connected.
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Hardware :: Drive Recognized When Connected Via USB But Not When Connected Via FireWire?
Jan 28, 2009I consider myself very good at all things Mac. But this one has me stumped.
I've just arrived home with a WD My Book Home Edition 1TB external drive. Formatted for Windows it mounted correctly via FireWire and USB.
First things first: I formatted it for the Mac... Mac OS Extended (Journaled), two GUID partition tables. So far so good. Each partition is recognized, each mounts like it should.
Time Machine then backed up my Intel iMac... again, everything's normal. No odd or unusual behavior.
Here's where things get strange.
For whatever reason I formatted the drive via USB. But my intention hereafter is to connect via FireWire... I need each USB port for peripherals.
But the drive isn't recognized through FireWire. I'm asked if I want to initialize it. When reconnected through USB the drive mounts again.
What's going on? Why is the drive recognized when connected via USB but not when connected via FireWire?
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OS X :: Won't Work With Camera / Only Recognized In Safe Boot Mode
Sep 7, 2010Samsung TL350
OS X 10.5.8, MacBook
I cannot get my camera to be recognized by my computer when I plug it in and the computer is normally booted.
* If plug the camera into my MacBook, Image Capture and iPhoto will not recognize it.
* If I plug the SD card into my computer with a card reader, the card will be read just fine.
* The camera works on two other MacBook Pros
* The camera will be found on my MacBook if I boot into Safe Mode
* The camera is found in System Profiler when the computer is normally booted, however, the information provided is limited.
* The camera is found in System Profiler when the computer is Safe Booted, and the camera shows the full amount of information about the camera
When I open the system log and then plug the camera in, I receive the following:
Sep 6 11:46:14 JoAlDe kernel[0]: USBF: 958.769 AppleUSBEHCI0x27b8800::Found a transaction which hasn't moved in 5 seconds on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 3, EP: 0)
Sep 6 11:46:19 JoAlDe kernel[0]: USBF: 963.770 AppleUSBEHCI0x27b8800::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 3, EP: 1)
From what I understand, this means that the computer is unable to see that the camera is a Mass Storage Device, thus it times out and is unable to boot it as such.
So I set up my system with the USB Prober and the associated logging file.
I ran the USB Prober on level 7 while I connected the camera.
I know zilch about reading and comprehending any of the results except this snippet really stuck out to me:
It occurred twice more:
3635.575 [5] Finding driver for interface #0 of Samsung Digital Camera, matching personality using com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient, score: 104999, wildCard = 5
3635.575 [6] Matched: idVendor (8107) idProduct (4152) bcdDevice (256) bConfigurationValue (1) bInterfaceNumber (0)
3635.575 [6] Didn't Match: nothing
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OS X :: No Boot Up When FireWire Device Connected
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PowerPC :: G4 Will Not Boot After Using Target Disk Mode Connected Intel IMac?
Feb 3, 2006We have some new Intel iMacs and have transferred some information from our previous G4 PM (one MDD and one Quicksilver) to the new iMacs. For some reason the G4's will now not boot up and kernal panic on the gray Apple boot screen. This has happened to all the G4's we have in our office. They are running OSX 10.2.8 and the iMacs are running OSX 10.4.4. We can still mount the drives from the G4's using FireWire Target Disk mode.
I have tried zapping the PRAM etc but they still wont boot. I have also tried running the OSX 10.2 Installer disks to try and reinstall OSX on the G4's but the installer cannot see the drives?
I tried running the disk utility. It finds the hard drive but wont let me verify/repair permissions (the option is grayed out). It will only let me verify/repair the disk, but it finds no errors. The installer cannot find the disk at all.
We have more than one hard drive in the G4's and the target disk mode will only mount the system drive, it doesnt see the others, so we cannot retrieve out information. Whats going on. Never had this problem before.
Anyone have any idea what is wrong. Never had this problem before using the FireWire transfer.
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1. I tested the drive on a windows vista computer, and that computer recognizes the drive. I can read/write from it on that computer.
2. Neither USB port on my apple is faulty; other USB devices function fine via both ports.
3. I have tried several solutions including:
a) Restarting
b) Powering off, unplugging the power cord, waiting 15 seconds, replugging the cord, and booting up the computer
c) Restarting WITH the drive in the port
d) Leaving the drive in for a while to see if it would eventually recognize it (no results)
e) Reformatting the drive to FAT32 to make sure it's possible for my mac to read/write from it
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), iOS 5.1.1
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Info on drive sticker is
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Additional Info:
Steelseries Ikari Laser (mouse)
MacBook running Leopard.
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011)
