iMac FireWire Issues

I bought a new external hard drive recently to use as a time machine backup drive. Anyway, I was having all sorts of problems with the firewire 800 connection. It would just randomly unmount the disc and give me a ‘The disc was unmounted and files may be lost” type message.

The firewire 400 port on it would work fine, but as soon as I plugged it in via firewire 800 it would randomly unmount.

Same thing would happen if I had it plugged in via firewire 800, then plugged in a separate firewire 400 hard drive. The 400 connected drive would show up and the 800 would unmount.

Went and tried it out at the mac shop and it works fine, which kind of indicates a problem with my iMacs firewire 800 port. So I have to take the iMac back in for them to look at.

Such a pain, having to cart the iMac back to the shop. It’s not exactly the easiest thing in the world to carry around.

It’s still under warranty, which is good, but the hassle of having to take it in and get it looked at then fixed is a pain.

I’ll probably take it in tomorrow, if they can’t fix it before the weekend I’ll just get it back and take it in again next week.

bleh…