8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Garbage. Dangerous garbage., January 14, 2009
This review is from: 6 foot 6 pin Male to 6 pin Male Black Firewire Cable for IEEE 1394 devices (Electronics)
Ordered 4 of these, since price was good. Tried one, external drive wouldn't mount, even Disk Utility could not see it. Swapped back and forth between my good, usual, (thicker and shorter) cable, and the old cable worked fine every time, while the new one wouldn't let the MacBook Pro see the external drive.
Tried a second one, thinking maybe just a bad wire in first cable. Disk didn't mount, but Disk Utility could see it, so I mounted it from there. Or tried to: after churning away for many minutes, got a dialog saying that the disk would be mounted "with limited access" due to problems, that I should back up immediately and reformat the volume. This is a Time Machine volume, and haven't had a problem with it with other cable. Decided not to try backup with "limited access" availability (duh). Couldn't dismount from Finder. Tried to dismount from Disk Utility, to no avail; Finder froze. Hard restart. Mac started up in BootCamp/Windows, although it hadn't been running before restart and it usually starts in Mac environment. Shut down computer from Windows.
On restart, my BootCamp partition on main drive was renamed to "NO NAME". Time Machine volume didn't mount. Ran Disk Repair on it, since Disk Utility could see it, but couldn't be repaired: "Invalid key length; Volume check failed; Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed." AND - internal drive needed re-indexing.
So, now I have to totally reformat external drive and start Time Machine backups all over again - some of you know how many hours that takes for an initial backup, and I've lost all my past document versions, which I find handy to have. And I can't start that until *after* the internal drive re-indexing is finished.
Don't touch these 6-foot cables with a 10-foot pole!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Looks good works even better, July 2, 2008
This review is from: 6 foot 6 pin Male to 6 pin Male Black Firewire Cable for IEEE 1394 devices (Electronics)
Bought this to replace a factory supplied FireWire cable that came with an external hard drive. It works very well, has high quality construction, and looks great.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Got what I needed from it, October 5, 2010
This review is from: 6 foot 6 pin Male to 6 pin Male Black Firewire Cable for IEEE 1394 devices (Electronics)
Took the plunge, figuring that if it didn't work out it still wasn't worth fighting for less than $4.00 (shipping included). Don't use that often, developed short about 6 months in. You get what you pay for. Next purchase will be from a different vendor.
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