Firewire - the cause of all problems

[sgtpepa]

I have been having all sorts of problems with my IPOD 40 gb. I originally was connected by firewire. When I had problems, I went and bought the combination USB and firewire cable. It was and still is my impression that using this cable that the firewire was only connecting to the power so i could charge my IPOD while using the USB to transfer.

I use ANAPOD which I highly recommend. I was having a problem with my IPOD which had almost 40 gb on it reacting slow. I was told from this forum and elsewhere to delete about 3 gigs and that this should help performance. It didn't. I decided, I wanted to do a reformat, but when trying to do the IPOD updater 2.1, it first told me that I had more than 1 ipod connected. I didn't. Then after some screwing around, I got a messge that it couldn't mount the IPOD.

I tried to defrag. Nothing. Same problems. For some unknown reason, I decided to unplug the firewire and BINGO. The IPOD updater worked. I did a restore. Now I am loading the IPOD again with Anapod and it is loading at rocket speed.

MY SUGGESTION- UNPLUG YOUR FIREWIRE CABLE AND MANY PROBLEMS DISAPPEAR.

This may have been written before- but I didn't see it, or maybe I could have saved days of frustration

[ashawley]

hehe, I think your problem was that you had the USB portion of the cable connected to the PC and the firewire portion of the cable connected to a firewire port on the PC. Was that the case?

You're not supposed to connect the firewire portion of the USB/Firewire cable to the PC--it's supposed to be connected to the AC adaptor which you plug into an outlet. That'll provide power.

That would explain why it thought you had two iPod's connected--one from firewire and one from USB.

Adam

[SuN4ShO]

ok hi ppl,
im what youd prollay call a newbie user, as i dont know much technical things about my iPod. well i have a new computer, and i baught my iPod on 01/01/04 its 20GB.

Now the problem i got is that my iPod started off workinp erfectly and i was loving it, as im sure you all were when u first got yours, but then i got a lot more music and was really hyped for putting it on my iPod...and hey presto this is where the problem starts. Turned my computer on like any other day, opened iTunes up, placed my iPod in its dock, and connected it to my firewire(i-link) port on my sony win xp cpu. and now it cant read my iPod at all, when i try to do software updater thing it says please connect your iPod despite it being already connected.

I heard it may be a defective firewire cable, but where can i get one, and if someone knows how to resolve this problem...please tell me, it would be much appreciated.
fanx every1 =)

[SuN4ShO]

thw dock works perfectly cause when i connect it to my mains adapter the iPod charges in the dock