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<blockquote data-quote="teleholic" data-source="post: 1004411" data-attributes="member: 99897">Hi all, i've got a very stable powermac g4 dual 1.25 mdd..i just bought a 9pin to 6pin fw cable for use with my new MBP and since i've had bad experiences with burnt fw ports on single fw port apple notebooks, decided to test my maxtor hdd 6pin to the 9pin fw800 port on my g4..That's when things became weird..I made all the fw connections before powering anything up, and after powering everything up found that i could not power up the g4..when i pressed the power button it just lit for a second but refused to start up..so i plugged everything out, and was able to boot the mac up..i tried to plug the 9 pin end of the cable to the power mac and the computer just powered off straight away by itself..any clues as to what is going on? I'm a little apprehensive about trying it on my new mbp now.. i've never used the fw800 port on the g4 before...thanks in advance!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="teleholic, post: 1004411, member: 99897"] Hi all, i've got a very stable powermac g4 dual 1.25 mdd..i just bought a 9pin to 6pin fw cable for use with my new MBP and since i've had bad experiences with burnt fw ports on single fw port apple notebooks, decided to test my maxtor hdd 6pin to the 9pin fw800 port on my g4.. That's when things became weird..I made all the fw connections before powering anything up, and after powering everything up found that i could not power up the g4..when i pressed the power button it just lit for a second but refused to start up..so i plugged everything out, and was able to boot the mac up..i tried to plug the 9 pin end of the cable to the power mac and the computer just powered off straight away by itself..any clues as to what is going on? I'm a little apprehensive about trying it on my new mbp now.. i've never used the fw800 port on the g4 before...thanks in advance! [/QUOTE]

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