Testing Firewire 800 port on MacBook Pro

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Published on 2010-05-12T21:20:15Z Indexed on 2010/05/12 21:25 UTC
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I am having trouble getting my MacBook pro to mount an external Firewire hard drive.

I am able to mount the disk no problem on other Macs, just not my machine. I haven't received any errors from my machine, and don't see anything related to the Firewire port in the logs.

Are there good diagnostic tools for this type of problem that come with the Mac? other free alternatives ?

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