• iFab
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Topic: [Solved] MacOS Mojave: FF400 turns off when the Mini goes to sleep

Hello everyone and welcome back,

like every year, when I go on vacation, I dismantle the entire computer station and leave it like this until my return.
This year, once everything has been reassembled, every time the system goes to sleep, the FF400 also "turns off" (in the sense that all light disappears), giving a loud pop to the speakers.

When I "wake up" the system, the FF400 also turns on again, obviously with the loud pop at the speakers, and works normally.

What could have happened?

The last thing (besides everyday use) I did with the FF400 was to download and try to install the new drives that don't work on Mojave.

Is there any way to get rid of this annoying feature?

Thanks.

Mac Mini (Late 2012)
2.6 GHz Intel Core i7
16GB 1600MHz DDR3
macOS Mojave 10.14.6 (18G9323)
Fireface 400 (7CE)
Driver 3.39

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Re: [Solved] MacOS Mojave: FF400 turns off when the Mini goes to sleep

If the unit is bus powered, then it seems the Mac just powers down the Firewire bus power supply... You could connect to eternal power to avoid that...

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Daniel Fuchs
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  • iFab
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Re: [Solved] MacOS Mojave: FF400 turns off when the Mini goes to sleep

Hi, thanks for the reply, the unit is connected with the original power supply.

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Re: [Solved] MacOS Mojave: FF400 turns off when the Mini goes to sleep

Are you sure the selector on the rear panel is in the correct position for external power...?

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  • iFab
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Re: [Solved] MacOS Mojave: FF400 turns off when the Mini goes to sleep

No, and in fact it wasn't, but I'm sure I'm really distracted, I will have moved it during the disassembly of the station.

Thanks.

I am aging badly. :-D