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davidleyva - Jul 1, 2005 - 5:04 pm

Since I updated to 10.3.9 I started having problems with my Firewire port, sometimes it just dissapears from the system.

Is there a way of getting rid of 3.9 and bring the computer back to the previous OS?

Or how can I fix it? I really need to fix it a.s.a.p because I'm using this pc to record music with my Presonus IPOD and I keep getting lost of communication.

Thank you

skapp - Jul 1, 2005 - 5:12 pm

You can try this:

LaCie's Mike Mihalik checked in with some tips about dealing with FireWire failures:

Seems like the FireWire issue needs to be revisited quite often. Here is my often repeated suggestion which appears to clear up many FireWire issues: reset the FireWire ports. Panther has a Finder Preference to show mounted volumes on the Desktop. You must set this for mounted drives to be visible. Please follow these instructions to reset your FireWire port. Here is a summary:

shut down and disconnect all external drives and peripherals ; make sure nothing is connected to the FireWire ports

use Apple Disk Utility to repair permissions on your internal boot drive

shut down and disconnect the AC power from the computer as well as the drives; if laptop, also remove battery

let sit unpowered and unconnected for 15 minutes

reconnect AC power to only the computer (battery too if laptop)
restart computer

verify that FireWire ports are visible within Apple System Profiler

reconnect FireWire drive (only one); refresh window within Apple System Profiler to rescan the FireWire bus; confirm that drive is visible

confirm drive is OK by using Apple Disk Utility and apply First Aid
repeat for other drives, one at a time

Also, this may help .

If you repair the hard drive and it's OK, then if you must downgrade you can do so using Archive and Install.