Dead firewire Ports & PCI Card

Well here i go. Today I hooked up my firewire external drives. I am in the process of cleaning and reorganizing. The drives did not mount. The deck was next to be hooked up and is not recognized?
Okay so next its the forums alot of info. too much for me. Zapped the pram rebooted numerous times. Shut down let everything rest unplugged everything rebooted and plugged everthing in, nooo go. One of the LaCie fwdrives does work in my Mac Book Pro, so I realize it is not the drive or the cable. Reset the pmu button. NADA.
Okay so now its off to Staples for that Belkin PCI Firewire card. Installed it nothing. The system profiler recognizes it but the drives don't mount, and Disk Utility does not see the drives. Called Belkin tech support and I don't even want to go there, no we diffently do not want to talk about that.. anyone had a similar problem I would greatly like to hear what you have to say. It is real obvious that I would like to have the ports....BOTH FW PORTS THAT SHIPPED WITH THE APPLE G 5 work, however I quess that will not be and it seems everyone just settles for the PCI workaround, I will also if I can get it to work.. Thanks. I'll need the practice for when my USB ports LUNCH...

Regarding having to disconnect every FW connection before hooking up a Canon (GL2 in my case) I'd figured it was my Echo AudioFire 2 FW audio box that was causing the strin on the system, but as you quite rightly pointed out it's the Canon.
I just got back from buying a no brand "IEEE 1394A Card" from a local PC centric store and hooked the AudioFire up to it thinking it would end the problem, but as soon as I connected the GL2 the connection to my 1TB external LaCie was severed and my Lexar Professional card reader started flashing on and off (maybe it was flashing in sympathy with the pulses coming from the GL2 - a communication signal of some kind).
Anyways, I now have the following connections which is working great:
1. Firewire PCI card hooked up to the GL2 exclusively
2. Built-in G5 Firewire (rear FW400 port) hooked up to the FW breakout cable on my Cinema Display.
2a. (Cinema Display FW400 port 1) to Ext 1TB Lacie
2b. (Cinema Display FW400 port 2) to Lexar Professional card readers' FW port 1 and then from port 2 to the Echo AudoFire 2.
The only downside to this is that I was hoping to start using an iMac as my main machine but I can't now because I need two FW busses, and when I upgrade to a new Mac Pro I'll have to use up a PCI slot for the FW card.
I'm surprised Apple's pro machines only have the 1 FW bus, and even stranger how FW400 and FW800 share the same bus!!!

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Welcome to Apple Discussions.
You should reset the Power Management Unit (PMU) by removing the user access panel and locating the push button switch to the right of the drive connector and just below the right end of one of the two DIMM slots on your logic board. To do so…
• shut down the computer
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• place it face down on a stable, level surface
• remove the user access door by removing the center screw which mounts it to the frame
• equalize your electrical potential to that of the machine by touching the exposed metal case
• once you have done so, remove the power cord from your machine
• do not move around, which would change your electrical potential
• press the PMU reset button ONCE and once only, as second and subsequent presses can crash the PMU itself, and rapidly drain your backup battery
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Hi! Try resetting the pmu. Press the button once with all external cables unhooked. Tom
Here's an example of the button location.
QS/DA
[IMG]http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/6197/qsdalogicbdjn7.jpg[/IMG]
FW800
[IMG]http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/3729/fw800logicbd4xu.jpg[/IMG]
Sawtooth
[IMG]http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/5706/sawtoothlogicbd2yu.jpg[/IMG]
MDD
[IMG]http://img470.imageshack.us/img470/1623/mddlogicbd4ga.jpg[/IMG]

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http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Macally/TRIHUB7/
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http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20041221081432908
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Yes I did. I forgot about getting back to you, I am very sorry. I have been extremely busy and stressed trying to start up this new business. This recent hickup is one I really didn't need and can not afford to repeat so I need to make sure I am getting the correct product this time.
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DaddyPaycheck (that's a funny name )
I read the link and I have done all those things. This problem occurred last Tuesday and I have been troubleshooting ever since. (Along with my video card....as you graciously answered my call there as well.)
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With Gratitude,
tupelo_blossom
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