I have a 2011 Macbook Pro and am having problems connecting the My Book. It only sometimes shows up on finder with the firewire cable.
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First of all, I'm NOT sure that I have the answer for you, but here goes. Is your cable any good? How are the connections, either on the cable OR on the computer or the hard drive? Give Apple, or Western Digital a buzz. They're usually pretty helpful.
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It should show up in disk utility, and you can mount it then it will show up in Finder.applications>utilities>disk utility---see drive in left column > right click > click mountLet me know if this works for you.
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Hi Louis, it sounds like you might be wanting to use target disk mode. Theoretically it should work, however I have seen rare cases where adapters will stop the Macs from recognizing each other. There are several good articles on Apple's support site on how to do this including this one: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661
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Hi, It might be a bad on or maybe a cable? My works perfectly with my airbook. Send it back, some of these type connectors I've bought on Amazon weren't good- and I did get a FULL refund & one that worked!
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I really can't say because I have yet to get it to work with my Macbook Pro I am trying to return the item but the manufacture or amazon is not responding to my request any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated.
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how did work out? I am travelling and I have been trying to download video but with no luck on my laptop(mac G4). I tried the 4 pin to the usb, 4 pin to the 6 Firewire, and a couple other connectors.
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I have recently started using it with apple's thunderbolt adaptor. I haven't had any issues whatsoever, it works just as well as it does with firewire.
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This adapter is only for a firewire port, either 400 or 800. It doesn't appear that the MacBook Pro with retina display has a firewire port. You will need to purchase the Thunderbolt to firewire adapter first, then depending on if you have a cable that is firewire 400 or firewire 800 you may need the adapter. I would purchase the Thunderbolt to Firewire dongle first, then try your firewire cable. If it doesn't fit, then purchase the Firewire 400 to Firewire 800. Apple has the Thunderbolt to Firewire dongle, I just bought one myself. It is about $30.00.
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The one I bought worked. My grandson used it to connect the macbook to the tv, and is using it regularly. You may have gotten a defective one.
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No, it's the old connection. You will have to purchase the adapter to the new MacBook Pro
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It has a FireWire 400 out, I had to get a FireWire 400 to 800 adapter to be able to hook it up to my imac.
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I am using it with Mac , it works well. However , many times I have to pull the USB plug out and back inn for it to reconnect
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I don't have a mac book pro, I use a mac mini, should work the same, plug in to pic and the other in the home, should work, maybe on a mac book you might have to go your display settings and mirror the image
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Hi J Dodich, You can use Firewire, please to make sure your Mac also support this connection. Dave
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Well you probably should not have chosen this drive. It's not trivial to connect it to a Mac. This drive is primarily designed as an internal PC drive. Depending on the ports available on your Macbook, the best way to connect this drive is to get a drive enclosure that holds a SATA drive and has an external connector for firewire or USB. I think a newer Macbook has only thunderbolt and USB.
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My experience is that the cable native to your zip must be used or it won't work. I tried connecting to my MacBookPro with a USB cable, and it would not work because of incompatibility. So I tried with my old iMac and it worked. Apprently, this didn't require a more, updated USB cable.
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This was purchased for a Mac with a FireWire port, which is no longer a way to connect peripherals to a Mac. There are also USB Hubs for USB connections.
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The WD My Book Studio 2 TB Firewire 800, has a firewire port and a usb port, if your mack does not have a firewire port it will connect through the usb port although at a slower speed than if it did at the firewire connection.