maybe get enw firewire cable ?

i already tried that, i think its the connection in the actual card. or maybe (shudders) its the hard disk drive.

Well all i want is my mp3s dammit.

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The father made fetuses with flesh licking ladies / While you and your mother were asleep in the trailer park / Thunderous sparks from the dark of the stadiums / The music and medicine you needed for comforting / So make all your fat, fleshy fingers fingers to moving / And pluck all your silly strings and / Bend all your notes for me and / Soft silly music is meaningful, magical / The movements were beautiful / All in your ovaries / All of them milking with green fleshy flowers / While powerful pistons were sugary sweet machines, / Smelling of semen all under the garden / Was all you were needing when you still believed in me.

did it just one day stop working? cause if that's the case then it's very likely that the HD is fried...

hrm... is there a way u can open of the casing on the hdd and drop it in ur PC ?

If the system is rebooting then most likely you just have a short somewhere. Try replacing the card and/or cable. My guess would be that your 1394 card isn't seated properly. If that doesn't do it, try connecting your HD to someone else's system.

If all that doesn't work, open up the firwire case, take out the HD drive and connect it directly to your internal IDE (making sure master/slave jumpers are set correctly).

All of those firewire cases are just ide to firewire converters.