Firewire devices all showing "offline" in CS4

I installed CS4 Production Premium on one of my worskstations (HP xw8200 Win 7 64b) a couple of months ago and have been using it mostly just for outputting via Adobe Media Encoder. Today I tried for the first time to do an actual capture via firewire. Both devices I tried (JVC GY HD-110 camera and a JVC BR-DV3000 deck) gave me the familiar ka-doink sound when I powered them on, but the PPro capture utility shows them both as "offline". I tried rebooting the PC, doing a Windows update and checked both devices to make sure they were properly configured for output, but nothing has worked. I checked all the settings I could think of in PPro, too. The Windows Device Manager refreshes when I turn a device on or off, but I don't see either device showing up there. I realize this is probably a Windows issue, but I thought someone here might have an answer.

I used to have similar trouble getting firewire devices to show up. What I had to do was the following:
1. Unplug the firewire cable from the the pc and make sure the camera is off.
2. Reboot the PC with the camera off and the firewire unplugged so it boots up 'fresh'
3. Shut down the PC completely with the firewire unplugged.
4. With the PC shut down, plug in the firewire and turn on the camera to VCR mode or whatever you use when capturing.
5. Boot up the PC with the camera plugged in and turned on.

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Greetings
using a G5, tiger 10.4.9
I have been using this computer for many months with no problem using firewire devices. I recently set up a seperate user account on the computer for my daughter. Prior to this ( for many months)I had a fireiwre device - LACIE external HD -connected that would mount each time at startup and show up on the desktop. Now, I can't get the icon on the desktop of the LACIE to show when I startup. I connected a camera to the computer using firewire, but it too would not show ( before it would). When I connected the camera using USB, it showed up on the desktop. Looks like firewire devices not showing. I checkd System Profile and it shows the LACIE device as connected and functioning. But it won't show up on the desktop. Any ideas on why I can't ge the Firewire devices to show on the desktop?
Thank you in advance for you help. . . .
Brian
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G5 Dual 2.7 Mac OS X (10.4)
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Sounds like you have the name wrong. Open Disk Utility and take a look to verify the volume name. Disk Utility will list the drive itself, then indented below that is the volume name. To verify that you are using the correct name, try launching Terminal and do a list command:
ls -a /Volumes/"Name of Volume"
Hit the return key and see if the contents of the volume are listed. There is a space after "ls" and another after "-a"--if you don't get anything or get an error then you might want to try
ls -a /Volumes
and try copying the name from the list and pasting into the AppleScript.
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Firewire devices not showing up - No firewire information in System Profile

I have 3 external HD's, and an M-Audio Firewire interface connected to my dual 2.5 G5 - 10.4.6.
None of my drives are showing up on my desktop, and my interface is not showing up in my audio settings. In addition, the FIREWIRE secion of the system profiler has no information in it at all... it simply says "FireWire Bus:"
I ran a hardware diagnostic, and everything passed both the quick test and the full test.
I have tried numerous firewire cables, and all of my ports (FW 400 and 800)
I am very alarmed by this, I have zapped PRAM and repaired all permissions in Disk Utility.
please, any help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks in advance,
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Thought you could use this info about getting FireWire to work! (some you have tried!)
First, you should always Repair Permissions in Disk Utility before and after any update; I would do that now. If you installed your update with FireWire plugged in, your Mac may not recognize it anymore.
Try resetting your FireWire ports by disconnecting all FW devices, shut down your Mac and unplug it from AC power (wall socket) for 30 minutes. plug it back in and try FW.
If that didn't work, download the combo update from this site (yours may be corrupt), not Software Update, disconnect all firewire + USB devices except keyboard + mouse, Repair Permissions, re-install update, Repair Permissions again + try. Yours is the 10.4.6 Combo update ( PPC, not for Intel systems). Others reading, download the Combo that applies to your system.
If that still didn't get it Zap the PRAM. While restarting Mac hold down the following key combo Command-Option-P-R. Keep holding those keys down till you hear the second start-up chime, then release.
For those of you with Macs that are not PowerBooks or iBooks, a bad internal battery can cause FireWire to not be recognized, so make sure it's good! Also, here is Apple doc.#88338 on getting FireWire to work
Cheers!
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What version of Mac OS X? (Your profile says "iOS 6", but that's not a Mac operating system.)
Assuming you are running OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, set either or both of the following:
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This afternoon - for the first time in years - no firewire device showed up either on the Desktop or in the Apple Profiler.
Restarted several times with no success.
Devices on Firewire 400 (via bus) external CD reader/writer and DVD ditto.
Devices on Firewire 800, three LaCie drives linked together. Tried each one separately, no success.
Which is bit of a pain, these being my backup and ancillary storage devices ...
Disconnected them all. Restarted G5. Closed down and left G5 for half-an-hour (following a suggestion in a forum). Reconnected, restarted; no joy.
Console message includes:
Jun 6 14:50:03 localhost kernel[0]: FireWire (OHCI) Apple ID 42 built-in now active, GUID 001124ff fe86cb20; max speed s800.
and then, at the bottom of the report:
Jun 6 14:52:47 SarahJane kernel[0]: FireWire (OHCI) Apple ID 42 built-in: no valid selfIDs for more than 2 minutes after bus reset.
Jun 6 14:55:59 SarahJane kernel[0]: FireWire (OHCI) Apple ID 42 built-in: no valid selfIDs for more than 2 minutes after bus reset.
Jun 6 14:59:11 SarahJane kernel[0]: FireWire (OHCI) Apple ID 42 built-in: no valid selfIDs for more than 2 minutes after bus reset.
Can anyone help, please? I've run all the usual things, hardware check, diskwarrior, techtool (though none of these seem to check the firewire bus).

Right - had a look through, and after two attempts (mutter mutter and splutter curses) got everything going again.
The cure was, in this case, as listed in your first link: disconnect computer etc.
The first time the CD reader came back but the external drives wouldn't, so I said a few words that my wife would not approve of, then tried again but this time connected the (800 fw) external drives first, and then, when the buggers showed up, connected the cd drive on the 400 cable. I think the dvd drive on the 400 has died, so I'll leave that disconnected.
Oh it's a great machine when it's running right, it's a lovely gadget to play with; but when something goes wrong it can be very frustrating ...
I sometimes wish I'd had one of these when I was still at school and a little quicker on the uptake.

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Just a heads up: (using the Sony HVR-M15 with 5.1.2).
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No it seems to happen whenever it fancies doing it. I've just tried it with log and capture open, just closed and nothing yet opened but the project file; and it gave the same errors every time. I think it causes a firewire bus problem, because one of the external drives unmounts for a second, not both of them though, it unmounted the one going in the firewire 800 port (I have another going in a firewire 400 port on the screen, (and the M15 going into the other 400 port on the screen.)

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... I installed MacKeeper yesterday could this be the issue?
Get Rid of that Software... it is Not Needed... and likely the cause of your issue.
See Here > Beware MacKeeper
Uninstall MacKeeper here
http://applehelpwriter.com/2011/09/21/how-to-uninstall-mackeeper-malware/

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Firewire devices all showing "offline" in CS4

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