Thanks for posting your thoughts! However, the only non Apple/G5 hardware on this machine is a PCI card for the RME Multiface. It has been reported before that OSX can have difficulties in detecting external FW drives on dual G5 machines. I posted to see if someone knew about any explanation and also because of the latest update 10.3.4, which I myself had hoped for to correct this problem. All the best Per Boysen --- http://www.boysen.se http://www.looproom.com On 2004-06-01, at 01.45, pschannong wrote: > Hi, > > I have two FW800 250GB LaCie drives and one FW400 80GB Firelite > drive on a dual 2.0 G5 with 10.3.3 and have never had the problem > you discribe. The other hardware connected are AMT8 and 828mkII. > Perhaps it's an issue with your other hardware? Not that it's the > same, but I recently had to disconnect all hardware in order to be > able to authorize my Waves plug-ins. Strange things can happen when > you have hardware connected... > > Patrick