Clicks & synch loss on firewire sound card (not due to sound card!)

Bonjour, from France !
Ok my firewire port does work when it has to mount a drive.
But it really makes the biggest mess in the universe when it comes down to streaming audio data to my external firewire sound card, a t.c. electronic konnekt 8. Ok ok I see you guys comming with the "read the notice of your soundcard you idiot" answers ! But it's not just me. My brother has a firewire m-audio audio interface on his intel iMac (first generation) and he is having the same mess, and a friend also had another m-audio firewire model and had the same problems. Of course, drivers are up to date.
The problems are : mainly random clicks and sound gaps when playing audio, sometimes lasting a few seconds - sometimes loss of synchronisation leading to strong sound degradation.
So my question is : this issue is obviously a general (mac ?) firewire related issue as several configurations have experienced it. Does anyone out there know how i could fix it ?
Thanx for your time,
Michael

All I can say I've got the same problems...
I've got a Saffire Pro 26 I/O and it was rock solid on my Powerbook, even with a FW400 drive daisy chained and recording 10 tracks at once.
The same interface on my Macbook Pro and Mac Pro is constantly crackling, losing sync etc.
It's also much more sensitive to FW harddrives sucking the bus dry on my Intel Macs.
I've got the same sort of problems with my Line6 USB devices (Toneport, PODxt, PODxt Pro) on both Intel Macs, although they were rock-solid on my Powerbook. (and I'm always using up-to-date drivers).
It's as if Apple dropped the ball with the new USB and Firewire chipsets on the Intel motherboards.
If anybody knows of a nice firewire interface that won't go flaky on the new Intel Macs (and can handle 8 channels of ADAT I/O) let me know
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