firewire Lacie d2 makes sound disappear

[camarao]

Hi,

I'm having this extremely frustrating problem with firewire :

I have a 1.67hz Powerbook with firewire 800 and 400 connections.
I have a Terratec Phase 24 firewire soundcard connected to the 400 fw port and everything runs smoothly.
The problems start when I connect the Lacie D2 Extreme external drive to the 800 fw port. When I use the Lacie I can hear all sorts of pops and clicks in the Terratec outputs and after a while the Terratec no longer works. I have both equipment coonected to power supplies. They are not using Powerbook's energy. The Terratec becames useless and the only way to have Terratec soundcard again is by disconnecting the Lacie , and shut down the Powerbook and turn it on again.
This is very frustrating because I was hoping to use the soundcard and the Lacie external drive at the same time.

Am I doing something wrong or is the Lacie damaged ?

Thank you,

Alex

 

[camarao]

any ideas?

 

[Brighty]

Sometimes I have the same problem when I
connect my Lacie D2 via firewire 400/800 to by Powerbook 1.67,
OSX 10.3.9.

I lose the sound as well not very time just sometimes,
there seems just to be a little bug somewhere in the system,

All I do to get the sound back is go into System Preferences
then the Sound Tab, then just change the Volume in the
Output Volume Tab and then sound comes back,

No big deal but a little annoying
hopefully Lacie will update the firmware soon and fix this
or maybe a upgrade to Tiger will help !
Regards,
Brighty.

 

[camarao]

Sometimes I have the same problem when I
connect my Lacie D2 via firewire 400/800 to by Powerbook 1.67,
OSX 10.3.9.

I lose the sound as well not very time just sometimes,
there seems just to be a little bug somewhere in the system,

All I do to get the sound back is go into System Preferences
then the Sound Tab, then just change the Volume in the
Output Volume Tab and then sound comes back,

No big deal but a little annoying
hopefully Lacie will update the firmware soon and fix this
or maybe a upgrade to Tiger will help !
Regards,
Brighty.

I've just read from another forum that the problem is that you only have one firewire bus. You still have two ports but you can only use one. Not both at the same time. How do you have your things connected ?

 

[Brighty]

Hi Camarao,

I only use one firewire port at any one time but still
suffer the sound problem occasionally,

I just have to change the sound manually to fix it,

Regards,