Missing Lacie - Firewire woes!

I have tried several forums to find an answer to my headaches, I know I am not alone in this...
A brief history, I am cutting a film on FCP5 everythings been hunky dory, then my system hangs. i reboot, no Lacie (Firewire100gig), no media, nightmare!
The strange thing is when the drive is connected, the computer can see it both in profiler and in Disk Utitlity, it can see it, even repair it, but it won't mount? I have switched the cables and connected another lacie to the firewire port and that mounts so it's not the ports.
No matter what I tried I could not get this drive to mount on my powerbook.
In desperation I plugged it into my old B&W booted in OS9, Voila there is the Lacie, working fine?
I tried various fixes suggested in the Tiger forums, but without success. Eventually I copied the media from the drive under OS9 (took forever!) and reformated the disk, it appeared normally on the Powerbook. I moved my media back and sat down to get cutting once more. Things were fine for a good week or so, then I needed to digitise from my Canon XL1s I plug up, get digitizing, the system goes to sleep while I'm out making a coffee. The Lacie has vanished same problem yet again.
Anyway, my question is this, the drive seems to fuction normally most of the time, but when the Canon is connected via firewire sometyhing is going wrong.
Has anyone had this problem before?

canons are pretty notorious around here for not playing nice with anything else on the firewire bus.
You probably ought to get a firewire card for your laptop. different cards for different machines, you'll have to search around for whatever your laptop is.
It helps to add your system information into your user profile, so we don't have to constantly ask you.

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First... can you open iMovie and check to see that it sees it there?
If not...
Shut down the computer unplug everything have a beer and then fire it back up after 20 minutes. (Often called the Guinness Solution)
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Mike - Can you help please ? John Beatty suggested I post this to you :
I have just bought a LaCie Double Layer bus-powered Firewire DVD. It is an NEC DVD+-RW ND-6550A device. The drive came with Toast 6 Titanium, which is now installed.
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Don't skip this route - the amount of "extra" time is almost zero - in effect iDVD is doing this anyway behind the scenes to some degree. And separating encoding from burning makes a lot of sense. I always "Save as Disk Image" and burn separately.
And there is a guy that works for LaCie that frequent this forum:
http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?224@@[email protected]/7
I think you just need the proper disk burning profile from LaCie. You could probably e-mail Mike at the address on his profile. Or post a new thread titled "Question for Mike - LaCie Firewire and iDVD5"
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Mike
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The resultant DVD will not play in either my internal Drive, nor my normal DVD player - which is a multi region player. The DVD is only recognised in the external LaCie. BUT, playing the movie only shows chapter 1 of 12, and there is no sound at all. (despite the preview showing it to be ok).
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Hi -
I have a number of Macs running 10.4 and each has an external Lacie firewire drive attached, with a partition for an external startup drive. I recently bought a new Lacie 250 GB Porsche firewire drive to rplace a smaller Porsche model, but I cannot install OSX 10.4 on it because the install disk does not recognize the external drive as an installation source. I have upgraded the firmware on the drive but that has made no difference. Does anyone have any idea as to what the problem might be and help me figure out how to install the operating software on the external drive? Thanks for your help.
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Hi Matt,
Thanks, I just did that, and it now shows:
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I have the following set-up:
G5 PPC iMac
OS X (10.4.11)
Lacie Firewire 250Gb external hard disk
Silverkeeper 1.1.4
I have used this software many times and it has worked perfectly, flawlessly even, EXCEPT for one issue.
When I am at home I back up my Mac HD regularly to the Lacie. I also always do this just before I travel.
When I travel, I take the Lacie HD (and cables) with me, connect it to whatever PPC Mac is available, select the Lacie drive as my start-up disk, and then use it as if it were my G5 at home.
When I return home, I reconnect the Lacie to the G5 and back-up from the G5 (Source) to the Lacie (Destination) using Silverkeeper with the following option selected:
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+The message from XXX <[email protected]> concerning “RE: ZZZ” has not been downloaded from the server. You need to take this account online in order to download i+t.
This message is in the right e-mail box, but there is no header or field information of any kind, never mind any text in the body of the message.
I have no idea what this message means. The Mail application on my G5 iMac (and its 'mirror' on the Lacie drive) is set up to retrieve and send mail through POP and SMTP accounts and does not work with webmail. Furthermore, the Mail application checks for and sends e-mail automatically at fixed pre-programmed intervals according to its configuration.
What therefore does '..+.has not been downloaded from the serv+er.' mean. What server?
And what does '+You need to take this account online in order to download it+.' mean? I have to be on-line in order to send and receive e-mail in the first place, and the Mail application works perfectly when running on the Lacie drive. The e-mails all APPEARED in their correct mailboxes in Mail on the Lacie drive. Silverkeeper simply fails to back up sent and received e-mails from the Lacie drive to the G5 HD. Also, if I now (after having copied from source to destination as above) make the Lacie drive the start-up disk, the e-mails sent and received on my travels are no longer in their mailboxes, but have instead been replaced with the messages identical to that in italics given above.
Any help in solving this would be hugely appreciated. I have already lost quite a few e-mails and hope not to lose more.
Many thanks.
I appreciate that it is possible to configure the Mail app. to leave e-mails on the server for a month after first downloading them to Mail, or to remove them from the server only when they are removed from the Inbox, but I suspect that would drive me mad. Also I have rules and filters set up to send the incoming mails to customised mailboxes that are not in the Inbox, so that second option might equate to immediate removal from the server.

Seems Silver Keeper no longer keeps up, let me sugest..
Get carbon copy cloner to make an exact copy of your old HD to the New one...
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
SuperDuper...
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/
Or the most expensive one & my favorite, Tri-Backup4...
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Missing Apple Firewire NTSC

Hi all,
I've read tons on this but can't find a solution...please help.
I needed to output a spot to miniDV for a station (haven't needed to do this in quite a while) but when I start up to output there's the "(missing) Apple FireWire NTSC (720 x 480)" message.
I recently (past 6 or so months) upgraded to Final Cut Studio 3 (not sure if this is significant).
I'm certain all of my capture and sequence settings are correct (used EasySetup and checked settings).
I also:
trashed prefs
zapped the PRAM
removed QT versions and installed the most recent version
copied all additional easy setups to the library
checked cables and ports
reset decks to factory settings
checked system profiler is seeing decks
removed other peripherals on FW chain
My FCP is not seeing either of my decks – it won't load up the Apple FireWire NTSC for video or audio out.
It's not the decks – ultimately I had to transfer the project over to my laptop for output to the deck.
I don't know what to do.
I have:
Dual-Core 2x2.66 Xeon PowerMac G5 with 9 GB RAM
FCP 7.0.3, QT7.6.9, AJA Kona 3, JVC BR-HD50 Deck, Sony GV-HD700 Clamshell Deck
Thanks for any advice.

Woops! Thanks for replying.
Sorry for the disinformation – it's a MacPro 2nd Gen Dual 2.66 Intel Xeon with 9G RAM, AJA Kona3, and a 3ware Sidecar eSATA RAID.
The system recognizes both of my decks (JVC BR-HD50, and Sony GV-HD700). I'm just using the DV-NTSC easy setup to keep things simple and I check to make sure all of the AV tabs reflect these settings accurately.
This is the way I've always done it for going out to these decks for years now and I've never had any problems. I have a standard DV-NTSC sequence with bars and tone, slate, countdown, etc. for sending to stations. I haven't had to do this in quite a few months as stations are increasingly accepting digital files via ftp.
As I mentioned, I've done everything I've seen suggested online, and also tried the powered FW400 hub with no luck.
Thanks for any insight you might be able to give me on this issue.
Message was edited by: JWilson

[Missing] Apple FireWire

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I also tried digitizing DV footage but can't bring in video or audio either. Capture Settings are Device Control: FireWire NTSC, and Capture/Input: DV NTSC 48 kHz.
FYI I have Final Cut Pro 4.5 running on a G5 with Panther 10.3.9 and Quicktime 6.5.2. Im aware of the issues some folks have had with Tiger and QT7 so Ive been hesitant to go there yet. Also, I have external drives firewired into the G5s back port, while the DV deck is firewired into the front port.
Thanks for any help --
Dan

I exported the program to my HD, unplugged the external drives, and tried again to see if FCP would recognize the deck without the drives. No luck.
I wonder why I'd need to add a new card? This has always worked fine before. It's just now that FCP can't locate my deck and input or output video/audio. At the moment I'm more concerned with outputting since I need to master to tape for a project I'm sending out.
I checked my external drives in System Profiler and they're all 400 Mb/sec speed -- I don't have an 800 speed drive connected, which I would guess might impact firewire's ability to detect devices.
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I just upgraded to Mac OSX 10.4.6 and Finalcut Studio.
I went to open FCP5 and look at all the new glory they offered me and found disaster. It gave me the "can't connect to device" message box on boot up. So I did my usual look at the deck and saw that it was on. But I'm still not able to connect.
Thus far, I've tried:
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I've seen a post from someone about dumping all traces of Quciktime and reinstalling it. I'm a bit leary about that for some reason.
I also have Media100 installed on my machine. With FCP4.5 I never had an issue, or noticed any integration of any sort. However, if I go to View->Video Playback I am currently getting the follwoing:
None
[Missing] Apple Firewire NTSC (720x480) (greyed out)
Digitial Cinimea Desktop Preview - Main
Media 100 NTSC 640 x 480 (640 x 480)
Media 100 NTSC 720 x 486 (720 x 486)
Media 100 PAL 768 x 576 (768 x 576)
Media 100 PAL 720 x 576 (720 x 576)
HELP!!
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I'm having a similar issue, but a bit more extreme.
I have a PBook G4, and while I"ve tried all the following -
-restart my computer
-powercycle the camera
-Checked the firewire bus through the OS and it shows
that my device is connected
-remove all other firewire devices
-tried different firewire port
-I dumped the preference files for FCP5
-tried the cables and camera on a G5 with success
And I cannot get my laptop to recognize the camera. I have the same issue as this post -
And, if I try and open Log and Capture, it closes FCP immediately.
to quote the other post, -
if I go to
View->Video Playback I am currently getting the
follwoing:
None
[Missing] Apple Firewire NTSC (720x480) (greyed out)
Digitial Cinimea Desktop Preview - Main
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Hi
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Waiting for your comments,
Sincerely
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Thanks for your response Duanne
But actually I'm interested in not having mi hard drive connected to my iBook.
Since it's only me using the AEBS and moving around the house I taught I could get an a adapter for this issue.
I will keep looking for possible solution
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