Fire wire: number of Pins?

I am bit confused & new to this forum... how many firewire pins does Mid-2010 Mac mini have and G4 power Mac tower have? could the transfer be done via ethernet cable?
Hope to get reply soon...

Not if you use Firewire Target Disk mode, though having a monitor on the G4 would make it easy to verify that it is indeed in Target Disk mode. The G4's hard drive will mount on the iMac just as would any other external drive, so you can access files on it without needing to see anything on the G4 (which will only show a moving Firewire icon anyway).
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Fire wire - # and number of pins?

I want to add an external drive to my mac mini (non intel), and I plan to do this with a fire wire connection. I have found that fire wire cables are defined by the number of pins (4 or 6) an number IEEE-1396 or 1394. I believe I need to buy a cable, IEEE-1394 with 6 pins on each end. Can anyone confirm this belief before I buy the cable.
Thank you for your comments.

Hi,
I admit I have never heard of IEEE 1396 before you posted it here.
However a quick googling came up with quite some hits.
To my knowledge (and from the Google hits) it seems that IEEE 1396 is used to determine a 6-pin to 6-pin cable connection, whereas IEEE 1394 is used for a 6-pin to 4-pin cable connection.
4-pin ports are usually only used with external devices, that don't need/want to draw power from the Firewire cable (like Digital cameras and the like) or computers (like Notebooks) that don't provide power over the Firewire cable.
Nonetheless the only 'official' name for Firewire of any kind is IEEE 1394 with the addition of small letters like 'a' 'b' or 'c' to distinguish the differences in speed (Firewire 400; Firewire 800).
So look at the Firewire ports you want to connect with the cable to determine which cable you need.
Take care and thanks for the star.
Stefan

Limited Number of fire wire ports

I am editing with Final Cut Express using my laptop (MacBook). There is only one fire wire port. So in order for me to capture the video footage I have to capture from the camera to the computer's hard drive and then transfer to my external drive. It captures to the "Final Cut Express Document Folder" that seems to be a pre set default location.
How do I move the "Final Cut Express Document" folder that was the automatic default location when I connected the camera to the fire wire port, so that I can then use the clips for the edit? I want to use the external drive as the scratch disk/drive to do the editing, but still be able to capture the video to the computers hard drive, then move to external drive to work on the project.

The remaining folders will do their job as needed. You just "tell" to FCE where to find material that was previously used in a project.
Follow Tom's intructions:"+You drag it from one drive. If you hold the Command key while you drag it will move the material. When you launch the application it will ask you to reconnect the material because it doesn't know where it is as you've moved it. Point it to the file it's looking for. It should find the rest of them.+"
Michel

I'm using iTunes 10.6.1 on an iMac 2,66 Ghz intel core Duo with8GB DDR3 and Lion 10.7.3 I hav 260000 mp3 stored on A My Book 3 TB external Fire wire 800 Drive - when I play songs I get short interuptions every 20 to 30 seconds. Can't iTunes handle that?

I'm using iTunes 10.6.1 on an iMac 2,66 Ghz intel core Duo with8GB DDR3 and Lion 10.7.3 I have 260000 mp3 stored on a My Book 3 TB external fire wire 800 Drive - when I play songs I get short interruptions every 20 to 30 seconds. Can't iTunes handle that number of songs?

I'm using iTunes 10.6.1 on an iMac 2,66 Ghz intel core Duo with8GB DDR3 and Lion 10.7.3 I have 260000 mp3 stored on a My Book 3 TB external fire wire 800 Drive - when I play songs I get short interruptions every 20 to 30 seconds. Can't iTunes handle that number of songs?

HP Pavilion Elite m9040n Desktop and Fire Wire 1394

I have the above mentioned Desktop. It has a 1394 plugin on the front of case. Does the Pavilion come with all the software to make fire wire work? I backed up my hard drive onto an Toshiba external disk with a USB cable the other day and it took 6 hours. Isn't fire wire suppost to transfer data faster than a USB cable? Is there any special things I need to know when buying fire wire 1394.
I was looking on the internet the other day and they showed fire wire with 4 and 6 pins. Looking into the hole on my computer it only looks like 3 pins?
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Rick, welcome to the forum.
There is no software necessary for Firewire (IEEE 1394a). The driver is installed with the OS.
Here is the Motherboard Specifictions page for the computer. It only shows that there is a Firewire (IEEE 1394a) port (# 11) in the Back I/O ports.
Here is an article that shows the comparison of speed of Firewire vs USB. Firewire was developed by Apple.
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Fire Wire: MBP OS X.4.11 Can't see external devices. PLEASE HELP!

Fire Wire: MBP OS X.4.11 Can't see external devices. PLEASE HELP!
My MBP will not "see" my new MB or my back-up drive—both connected via a firewire 400 (6 pin) cable. Both running Tiger X.4.11
I have used this cable to connect my MBP and a TiBook in the past as well as to back-up onto the LaCie e-drive.
I have run "disk repair" and "permissions" on both machines.
BTW—"permissions" are regularly out of wack on the MBP. But, the disk is OK according to Disk Utilities.
I also cannot put the machine to sleep after logging out. Has a hard time shutting down as well. Sometimes I need to force a re-boot.
Can't run Disk Doctor because I don't have a bootable disk yet. It's coming via snail mail.
The new MB "sees" the e-drive connected with the same cable.
I can't transfer my files to the new MB nor can I back up.
Is it time for a "clean install"? Makes me nervous that I cannot backup before trying anything drastic.
Can someone please help me?
Thanks in advance.
Tek

Put the more recalcitrant computer into Target Drive mode by starting it with the T key down until you see the yellow on blue screen. Then connect it to the other machine by firewire cable while both are already awake.
I hope that you did not do any upgrades while you had external drives connected... that is an automatic problem. Always disconnect from externals and accessories before doing any upgrades. Always back up before doing any upgrades.
Firewire networking is not the same as using a computer in Target Disc mode. In Target disc mode, you are using the internal drive of the Td computer as an external. That should allow you to run disk utility. Do use the proper disc utility version for the OSX version that is on problem drive. ie don't use the Leopard disc utility for the Tiger disc or vice versa.

The new Mac Book Pro and Fire Wire

Hi,
can I use the new MacBook'sPro Fire 800 plug with a 400 connection? Are there any adapters? Otherwise what to do with all my Fire Wire 400 applications?
Cheers
Hartmut

Hi nvelotta,
FW800 uses the 9-pin Firewire connector.
FW400 uses both 6-pin (powered) and 4-pin (non-powered) connectors.
Most video cameras that use Firewire use the 4-pin connectors because they do not require power over the cable, and also because it is smaller. What you most likely need is this:
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?cid=102&cp_id=10301&cs_id=1030104&pid=3541&seq=1&format=2
It's a 9-pin to 4-pin cable. However, you said that the 4-pin connector does not fit into your camera. Does the 6-pin fit into the camera? If neither of these fit, the port on your camera is not a Firewire port. USB plugs are strictly rectangular. It could be one of those.
Let me know what conclusion you reach and I can help you find an appropriate cable!
--Travis

Capturing using external HD via fire wire?

I just bought a lacie 80 GB mobile external hard drive. I want to begin capturing a new project... however I see only one fire wire port on my powerbook G4. So how do I connect my hard drive and camera, both of which are using fire wire?

Tom-
I also posted this as a seprate message-----
OK, I finally bought the correct-- at least I think it's the correct--- external hard drive (160 GB lacie). However, when I use "capture now" I get an "allocating disk space" message. This message usually stays up for a very long time with the spinning pin wheel, which results in only a small fraction of my video being captured.... if any at all.
I'm assuming this has something to do with the addition of the external hard drive... any suggestions?
Also, when I capture using clip it seems to work OK... sort of. Clip will capture the video, but only one channel of audio.

Import (v. 7.1.5) iPhotos from old iMac to new iMac (v. 9.2) using Migration Mgr. over fire wire. All photos ( many dups) appeared in EVENTS and PHOTOS in the new Mac – but NO ALBUMS.

Attempted to import 6.5 GB of (v. 7.1.5) iPhotos from old iMac to new iMac (v. 9.2) using Migration Mgr. over fire wire. All photos (plus many dups) appeared in EVENTS and PHOTOS in the new Mac – but NO ALBUMS. I read a previous response to a similar question -- to copy the pictures library to the new computer. How best to do that?

There's actually an option to iPhoto Library Manager that makes this all almost work flawlessly (and work well enough for me). With the exception of Photo Albums that the pictures are part of, if you select "Library > Rebuild Library..." and then select "Scavange Orphaned Photos" check box, then it will put all the Photos and Movies into the "Scavanged Photos" album. It matches the modified pictures to their originals. It preserves all the event names and photo groupings. All the meta-data I could spot check it got right (although with 44k pictures, I only checked a few). If you fail to select this option, however, it will find no pictures at all when it goes to rebuild the library (this was true of the small test libraries I tried as well as the big, monster 280GB library I just finished converting). The conversion process took 5 hours to run, but in the end produced a library my new iPhoto can read and that I can interact with. I'll be suggesting to the iPhoto Library Manager folks a notation that would estimate the number of Orphaned Photos and display that number as a hint to the user that the option would be useful.
Edited: Thanks to Old Toad and LarryHN for their help in finding which of the many options to transition this library to 9.5.1 I needed to use. Sorry if I took my frustration of the past several months out on you guys for generously trying to help me.

Need to "restore/over write" data from ex Fire Wire to internal drive

Let me say up-front that I know little about computers. I backed up my internal drive to my external Fire Wire, as I was going to reinstall Tiger (don't ask me why. It seemed a good idea at the time). Without much thought I checked the clean/erase installation box. (using the Backup 3 download from .mac)
So, when I tried to restore my data, the new install has no record of ever backing up to my Fire Wire, and so won't accept a "Restore" command.
Is there any way I can get my start up drive to rewrite itself from my Fire Wire, or is it (A) a lost cause, or (B) The kind of thing that has to go to the shop?
power mac G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)
power mac G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)
power mac G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Mr Hamilton:
I'm plugged into a Firewire port (I think. Someone else set it up for me. I'll have my friend verify when I see him this week.)
Mr Majordadusma:
I bought my computer four years ago, around this time of year. "About this Mac" says:
1 Ghz PowerPC G4
1MB L3 cache
1.25 GB DDR SDRAM
Startup Disk Untitled
Machine Model: PowerMac3.6
Boot ROM Version: 4.6.0f1
My External hard drive is listed under "ATA Bus". It's an IBM-1C35L.... there are more letters and numbers, but in case it's the serial number, I'm stopping here. In case they tell the model number, I'm hoping this is enough info to identify. The capasidy is 57.27 GB, with 44.1 GB available.
File System: Journeled HFS +
Don't know if this is too much info or not enough.
I will try the things you suggested (or, rather, get my friend to try as I'm pretty much afraid to touch my machine. When I backed-up, my iTunes should have had my music and video library, but even though my games and some other backed-up stuff is there, we haven't been able to bring up my Library's--they come up blank--I'm afraid that I mayhave done something to screw that up, so am leery of messing with my computer). If they do not work, I'll report it back here.
I'll also check back here later, in case my G4 model doesn't allow me to boot from an external drive.

Fire Wire Bus load

I know this is a general "mac" question, but I trust my Logic and music cohorts to help out. I have a number of external drives hooked up. Is it better to spread them to different fire wire ports then to daisy chain them?
One is my "time machine" and often is in use and I'm wondering if it slows things down.
thanks
Dan

In theory, there is no difference between two devices chained off one port, compared to one device connected to it's own port.
In most computers, there is only one FW bus, so multiple ports are connected to the same bus - this is in effect the same as chaining two devices together - they share the available bandwidth.
In practice, some devices can be picky about where they are placed in a chain, or what comes after them, but these should be the minority.
But to answer your question, assuming your devices don't get on badly with anything else, it's not better - it generally makes no difference. I've happily had three FW drives and an audio interface chained to a port on my MBP without problems.

Fire wire ports do not work

Here's a little history with the problem I'm having. At first (about 1 year ago) my fire wire ports became intermittent. They would work one second, then they wouldn't. I took my Mac in to be serviced, at the time it was still under warranty, but the techs couldn't find anything wrong. I brought it home but still had the problem. I figured maybe my components were bad. 1 year later I'm still having the problem. So I took it back, to the same people, this time they dug a little deeper with their tests and found that my logic board was bad. Everything else on the computer seems to work great, just not either fire wire port.
The questions I have are:
1) has anyone encountered this problem?
2) when looking at the logic board which number is used for the part
number? Mine says 820-1592-A, also 630-6483 is listed just under the
bar code. I'm trying to locate another, so far unsuccessfully.
3) do you think Apple would honor the warranty since Authorized techs
didn't find the problem the first time when my MAC was under warranty?
Any info will be helpful. Thanks

I had an issue with my FireWire ports not working right before my logic board died. I was able to resurrect the FW situation by unplugging everything from the back of the G5 (including the power cord) and letting it sit for 15 minutes. This caused a reset and then FW started working again -- alas for nothing when the logic board croaked a few weeks later.
By all means contact Apple -- since you did have it checked under warranty they might be able to work with you. You have nothing to lose and a lot to gain. My repair put me back $900 + (I did not have an AppleCare extended warranty, since I have never had any of my previous Macs fail before).

Satellite P100: USB/Fire-Wire ports not charging external device

When I plug my ipod into either my 4 pin fire-wire port or a USB port on my laptop (satellite P100) it fails to charge, even when plugged in to the mains/ A/C power. I think I have found where I need to go in 'control panel' but need help on how to allow my fire-wire and USB ports to give out power and charge my ipod when its connected.
Any help on this matter will be greatly appreciated.
Cheers

Hi
The USB ports provide automatically the power. Usually every USB port provides about 500mA.
But please note; the notebook must run and the external USB device (iPod) must be recognized by Windows OS!
I dont know if the iPod was recognized by WinOS but I have read the many users have problems with the iPod installation on Windows OS. As far as I know the iTunes must be installed if you want to use the iPod.
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Fire wire question

I just purchased a new mac book pro and I want to sync it up with my old mac book pro, but I don't know what kind of fire wire cable to buy.
The old mac book pro was purchased in 2006-I have no clue waht the correct size cable is for that specific port but I do know that I went to Best Buy-bought the first fire wire cable I saw and it fit into my old computer (I believe it was a 6 pin?)
If someone could just tell me the specific name of a cord that would fit into both my new mac book pro and my old one (circa 2006), I would REALLY appreciate it!!!
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You need a cable like this one. If BBY doesn't carry them then try Radio Shack and if you can't find one there just order from Amazon.
Roger

What fire wire cable?

I want to attach a fire wire device to my new Mac mini. I can not find a cable with a connector that fits the little fire wire receptical on the Mac. The standard plug is 6 pin, the same as on my old FW800 Mac. So I bought a 6 pin to 4 pin, not right. The IEEE 1394 says there are 6 pin to 6 pin (which I have) , 6 pin to 4 pin, and 6 pin to 9 pin. Could the Mac have a 9 pin receptical?? I wouldn't ask but the cables are $8.00 each and the store won't take it back once it's ripped open.
Thanks Bob

Bob, there is a brief description of the options on this page:
http://thelightroomlab.com/2009/06/firewire-connectors-a-profusion-of-plugs/
Face with the same problem I chose to buy an adapter. I use it everyday to connect my TM backup drive. This is the one:
http://www.sonnettech.com/product/fw_adapter.html
I did have one problem using the adapter, which I reported here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2125939&tstart=0

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