Reply To: Luddite Geeks
Mine also does that, but since both (all three, if you include the iPod) of my firewire hard drives are powered from the firewire without any external power source, I can’t actually plug one into the other, because there’s not enough power coming from a single firewire port to power them both. At least, I assume that’s why it doesn’t work. So I thought I’d get a powered firewire hub, the old-fashioned going-into-a-store way because I’ve had to mail too many faulty or otherwise unusable products back to online retailers lately and it’s a pain. My plan didn’t work, but I did get a nice shiny new dictionary (I can never resist them) from one of the electronics shops which had cunningly added a range of books just to tempt me.
ETA: Actually, it did occur to me that I could get a powered-from-the-mains firewire hard drive with some extra ports on it, instead of a hub. But I already bought a powered-from-the-mains USB2.0 hard drive a couple of months ago for backups, and although it is almost full, it’s only almost full because I have multiple copies of various crap on it. And if I really wanted another big powered-from-the-main-for-backups hard drive, I’d have to at least consider getting a Time Capsule so that I wouldn’t actually have to plug my Mac into it. And that’s all just too much thinking when all I really want is a cheap little firewire hub.