On Mar 9, 2007, at 9:30 AM, Mike Wyant, Jr. wrote:
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:19:08 -0600 Subject: Re: FW800 ports not working Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
On Mar 8, 2007, at 2:03 PM, Marq Speck wrote:
Greetings, listers. Suddenly both FW800 ports on our G5 Dual 2.3 Xserve have gone dumb. Nothing mounts on them, although everything mounts on the front FW400 port.
I think that the keylock will disable mounting of external drives. Try unlocking and then reconnecting, unless of course you've already tried that.
Kevin
If you have done that, I believe the next generic step would be a PMU reset. Someone feel free to correct me on that - I don't work on X-Serve hardware often.
On Mar 8, 2007, at 4:36 PM, Arulchandran P wrote: It's very unlikely for both back ports to fail while the front port keeps working, because the front port is connected to the rear PHY just like the back ports.
I would suggest a cold power-down - remove AC power (both AC power cords, if the unit has a spare power supply :-)
A pmu reset is another step that should not be done "just because" it's there, while it shouldn't cause any harm it's not quite as easy to accomplish on a G5 Xserve. We have yet to hear back about whether the keylock was engaged, which will prevent any drives not already mounted from mounting. I'd try Arulchandran's step next, (disconnecting all FW devices as well). |
