G4 won't recognize a FireWire device

G4 (OS9.2.2, 450MHz, 1.5GB ram) won't recognize any firewire 400 device. No changes made; it just stopped working. Tried new cable, other devices, other firewire port. Devices work on iMac, and prior to this problem worked for years on the G4. I want to use a cd/dvd burner and external hard drive, which have always worked fine on this G4. Is there an internal card or something that runs the two firewire 400 ports that can go bad?

You can try resetting the FireWire ports by following this procedure, as described in an Apple Tech Document:
shut down and disconnect all external drives and peripherals ; make sure nothing is connected to the FireWire ports
use Apple Disk Utility to repair permissions on your internal boot drive
shut down and disconnect the AC power from the computer as well as the drives; if laptop, also remove battery
let sit unpowered and unconnected for 15 minutes
reconnect AC power to only the computer (battery too if laptop)
restart computer
verify that FireWire ports are visible within Apple System Profiler
reconnect FireWire drive (only one); refresh window within Apple System Profiler to rescan the FireWire bus; confirm that drive is visible
confirm drive is OK by using Apple Disk Utility and apply First Aid
repeat for other drives, one at a time
The FireWire controller chip is soldered to the motherboard, so that isn't user-serviceable. If you're can't restore normal operation of the ports, you can always install a FireWire PCI card.

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Last edited by Jixun (2014-12-26 15:42:05)

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Expected result:
The sound applet works and shown like in "Mint" (The one I was using before arch);
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$ lspci -v | grep -A7 Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
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Solution found:
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And go to the very end, remove/comment one of the line:
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I didn't touch those file before (installed by default), don't know why the line was duplicated..
I think I know the reason now - I've run the installer multiple times.
helmuthdu/aui/blob/master/lilo#L465
Last edited by Jixun (2014-12-26 15:42:05)

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