Fire Wire PC Card

I have a PowerBook G4 with a Fantom Drive external hard drive. I have several FireWire peripherals, so I purchased an iogear GPF113 PC Card. I was running Panther and it was working with no problems. I just installed Tiger and now it won't even recgnize the card. When I put the card in the computer, the card's power light turns on, so it is getting power. I went to their site and they say that the card is supported by 10.2 or later. Any suggestions?

I'm using a PowerBook G4 400 MHz using 10.4.10. I had some problems connecting to the phone in iTunes, but a recent update (either OS X 10.4.10, iTunes 7.4.2 and/or iPhone 1.1.1) mostly resolved it. I now just have to log off & back on before I reconnect the phone, then start iTunes. (I also told iPhoto and iTunes not to autostart a while ago.) That being said, I'm typing this whilst iTunes is uploading songs, about 10 seconds per song.
I miss FireWire.

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Installing the 3 Port Lacie Fire Wire PCI Card

Hello all
After acquiring 2 external Lacie Fire Wire HD's, and wanting to have the ability to connect my Camcorder as well, (without dazzie chaining everything), I decided to get the Lacie 3 Port Fire Wire PCI Card:
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10173
It's my understanding that this will work fine in my 1.8 Single Processsor G5 Desktop.
Correct?
It's my understanding that the Card will be Plug n Play - no drivers neccessary
Correct?
It's my understanding that this will now enable me to select any of the 3 devices plugged into the 3 port card, without having to depend on ONE of them being turned on (as in dazzie chaining them)
Correct?
This will also enable me to continue the use of the other 2 Fire Wire Ports built into the rear of the G5 motherboard?
Is there anything else I need to know?
System Preferences?
Thanx
Mike

It's my understanding that this will work fine in my
1.8 Single Processsor G5 Desktop.
Correct?
correct
It's my understanding that the Card will be Plug n
Play - no drivers neccessary
Correct?
correct
It's my understanding that this will now enable me to
select any of the 3 devices plugged into the 3 port
card, without having to depend on ONE of them being
turned on (as in dazzie chaining them)
Correct?
You should put the camcorder on your G5 internal FW 400 port
and the drives on the LaCie card (FW 800 card I assume).
This keeps the camera on one bus and the HD Drives on their own bus.
This will prevent getting dropped frames on capture.
This will also enable me to continue the use of the
other 2 Fire Wire Ports built into the rear of the G5
motherboard?
Is there anything else I need to know?
While capturing from your Camcorder, don't have any other firewire devices connected to your G5 ports, either front or rear. (though you have multiple ports, the G5 has only one firwire bus serving all the ports.)
That should cover it.

Fire Wire Expansion Card

It appears my firewire portion of my mother board is fried. Can I add a firewire card and bypass so I don't have to replace the board???

Hello! Have you tried resetting the ports by unplugging EVERYTHING inc. all cables and power supplies for other devices and let it sit for 30 min or so to allow them to reset? Tom
Here's a link to some cards. Tom
Firewire Card

Possible to install fire wire card on Envy j157cl laptop

I have a HP Envy 17 j157cl laptop that I plan to use as adedicated video editing platform. The only problem is that it doesnot have an I.link (hot wire) connector, only usb connectors. I have found a cable with USB terminal at one end and fire wire at the other. will this work? On the other hand, is there a fire wire board (card) than can be installed in the Envy 17?. The clips that I need to process now are in tape and can only be transferd to the computer via a vidio8 SOny vIdeocamera model DCR-TRV 520.

No laptops now just have no internal slots for expansion. There used to be a product called a Dazzle Video studio. I looked around for it but it seems to be out of production. It connected via usb but had S-Video component video, and firewire video input. It is a fairly big thing that looks a bit like a docking station. Have you tried the usb to firewire cable? Some people say those work other say they do not. I never tried one. I actually keep an old laptop with firewire around just for video capture from my older DV camera. Does your video camera also have an RCA or S-video output port? If so you can use this:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/PINNACLE-DAZZLE-DVC100-DVC-100-PLATINUM-Video-Capture-STUDIO-15-HD-PC-USB-NE...

Which pci express Fire Wire card uses TI chipset?

Hi all
could anyone tell me which PCI express Fire Wire 400 card uses the Texas Instruments chip set? Have been looking all over but could not find one so far.
All help welcome on this one!

I use an Aaxeon, but there are many others, including SiiG, Nitro etc.
http://www.firewire-1394.com/ is a good place to search for firewire-related stuff.

"fire wire" video capture cards for mac pro

....Have Power Mac ver. 10.9.5 system Maverick w/ 4 MB RAM & am trying to locate hardware for:
acquiring "FIRE WIRE" video capture cards for mac pro.... ? Any suggestions....?(Just purchased Adobe CS 5 premium)

Your question doesn't make much sense.
What type of Mac Pro do you have? Is it the new black cylinder or the old style silver tower?
Firewire is built-in to the old models & the new Mac Pros can use Thunderbolt to Firewire converters to capture from Firewire sources.
Maybe like this http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD464ZM/A/apple-thunderbolt-to-firewire-adapte r
Many older cameras used Firewire for capturing, but that has been replaced by other connection types. What are you trying to capture from?

X220i Express card with Fire Wire 400 adaptor

I'd like to know if there is a suitable Expresscard for the x220i that has a Fire Wire port. I already bought one but it didn't slot in properly although it does fit an older IBM laptop that I have. I need to download stuff from a video camera and don't want to buy the wrong thing again. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Hello,
My understanding is that the X220i (like my X220) has an ExpressCard/54 slot, that is, an ExpressCard slot which is 54mm wide. Any 54mm or 34mm wide ExpressCard should fit in there, but older 16-bit PCMCIA or 32-bit CardBus cards will not, as they have different connectors.
OWC, Rain Computers, SIIG, Sonnet, StarTech and SYBA all make FireWire ExpressCard adapters which should work fine with your X220i.
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Fire wire

my fire wire doesnt recognise a camera or a hard disk can i get it repaired or do i need a new card!!??

Hi, whiteyblast, and welcome to the Discussions!
Try resetting FireWire by disconnecting your FW cables/peripherals from the Mac, then disconnecting the Mac's power cord for about ten minutes. Then reconnect, power up and try it again.
Also, try a PRAM reset.
If it's truly dead/defective, you'll need to add a PCI card, since native FW is hard-wired to the logic board.
Gary

Fire Wire NOT Working

I have a Mac G5 2.5 For years I have had an M Audio interface connected to the Fire Wire port in the back; it worked consistently. I disconnected the M Audio last night in order to connect my video camera into the Fire Wire port (to import videos into iMovie) However, the computer would not detect the camera. Then I tried the Fire Wire port on the front of the computer, and still the computer would not recognize the camera. I gave up on trying to connect the video camera, disconnected it from the Fire Wire port, then plugged back in the M Audio. But now the M Audio will not work either! I tried both Fire Wire ports, AND I even tried another M Audio Fire Wire 410 just to make sure there was nothing wrong with the first one. I know there is power coming from the Fire Wire ports because the light on the M Audio will flicker, but the computer will not recognize it to allow me to use it the device. I also connected a Fire Wire hard drive - same thing.....the light goes on but the computer does not see the hard drive.
At this point I have to assume that there is something wrong with the Fire Wire ports, as all 4 of my devices would not work. I have worked for years this way with minimal problems. What can I do?

Hi rolesh79,
I have read that it is not too difficult to burn out the firewire controller on the logic board. Especially, when the device is turned on when plugged in to the mac.
You might try a third party firewire pci card as a replacement. A repair of disk permissions may have an effect. Or try a 800 to 400 adapter: http://www.pcconnection.com/IPA/Shop/Product/Detail.htm?sku=461273&oext=1038A&cisrc=14110944&cisku=461273.
Regards

How can i download video hdv minicassette footage from my sony video camera with no fire wire port?

How can I download video HDV minicassette footage from my sony video camera with no fire wire port?

Hi,
Are you talking about your computer which has no firewire port ? If YES you can have one of two options:
(a) Use FCI - Firewire card like this (preferred)
You can buy from this:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/2-Ports-PCI-Express-PCI-E-IEEE-1394A-Firewire-Adapter-Cable-Card-/1507023...
(b) You can also use USB-Firewaire adapter like this:
http://compare.ebay.com.au/like/120580625092?ltyp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes
Regards.
BH
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Video out fire wire port from iTunes?

Final cut and Pro Tools LE both have the ability to send video from a G5 to a TV out of the fire wire port via a Canopus ADVC-110. Why doesn't iTunes? I understand that the new Mac TV gizmo plus an airport card will do this, but I already have all the hardware I need for this to work. I just need iTunes to take advantage of the same external video option that Final Cut and Pro Tools LE have. Anyone know of a patch or something that would make this happen. Or at least a stand alone player that will play the m4v iTunes video files and play video out fire wire port to my canopus which will then send it to the TV?

In an attempt to get my iTunes downloaded TV episodes to play on my TV without having to buy the Apple TV hardware and an airport card I have been trying to find a way to convert the m4v video files into a format that can be read by a stand alone player that allows me to output video playback through my fire wire port so my canopus box can then send it to my tv and stereo. I tried iSquint and it does not work. I get an AppleScript error "Can't make "" into type real. (-1700)" If you hit OK the program then spins it's wheels with the progress report "Preparing Audio for File 1..." It is still my belief that Apple should enable iTunes to output video through the fire wire port. Since Final Cut Pro and Pro Tools LE have that ability and it works I assume that it should work wth iTunes. Please send iTunes feedback from within iTunes and ask apple to add this option to iTunes.

Midi ports line in ports Fire Wire etc on the Audigy 2 platinum, new Creative Driver for Vis

Hi, I have been using my Audigy 2 platinum dri've for a few years now and have been very pleased with it, the main things I do on my pc is music creation mainly Midi but also some analogue audio as well, I also do lots of video making. I am just about to build a new system with Vista ultimate as the platform, I currently use XP Pro. I have little use for Creative?s own software and personally I do not think it is that good, I know Creative have released a new driver for my sound card But, my question is will my Midi port connections and things like my line in and the auxiliary ports and the fire wire port on the front platinum panel work with this new driver, and without the Creative software installed on my pc, and as we all no by now it looks like we will not be seeing any at all, or not for ages yet. you see I am a wheelchair user and I can not readily fiddly about a the back of my pc that is why a bought the sound blaster so I can easily plug in and unplug what I like, can anyone give me some help or advice on this issue please. ??

Guess I wasn't clear enough. I have uninstalled the soundcard and reinstalled over a dozen times even going so far as making sure all the drivers that the device properties lists are really deleted from the system. I have resinstalled DirectX at least twice using the latest version from MS. The only thing I have not done with DirectX so far is installed the SDK version which I will be doing eventually anyway. I even uninstalled and then reinstalled my video card as it shared files with the sound card. As for getting the latest version of openAL I see little point in that as Windows forces openAL through DirectX anyway and none of my games use it. Nor does the device depend on it to work. Any other suggestions?

Fire Wire 800 VS eSATA interfaces

Hello,
I am looking for a phat hard drive to use with my system.
The things that I am pondering; Fire Wire transfer speed as compared to eSATA transfer speed. Is it advisable to step up to a drive that has the eSATA option, or is Fire Wire 800 sufficient? Perhaps a raid array is the way to go?
If eSATA is the stuff, can anybody steer me in the direction of a vendor for an Express Card.
Thanks.

For the formats you work in using FCE FW800 is sufficient.

Enabling VNC or Fire Wire booting

Hello Mac People,
Is there anyway to access "System Preferences" remotely?
I need to check and make sure that "Remote Management" is enabled on a FULL XSERVE server running 10.4.11.
I will be using a Mini-Mac also running 10.4.11; this is only going through a switch (same domain).
I have FULL administrator privileges and have no problem connecting using "Server Admin Tools". And I can telnet in just fine also.
Have tried approximately six GUI VNC applications (Chicken of the VNC, Tight VNC, etc.etc.) and ALL fail with vague error messages.
Also tried a known good PCI video card into this FULL headless server but then the operating system froze at start up. Yes the video card is compatible with 10.4.11.
I have also tied to "kick start" the service as well using:
sudo sh -c "/bin/echo -n enabled > /Library/Preferences/com.apple.ScreenSharing.launchd"
(and several syntax variations mentioned on the web) but the commands also fail.
This is a CRITICAL Mac server that is other wise working GREAT located at one of the companies that I support and of course they do not want to buy "Apple Remote Desktop". Gees .... this company is still running Office 2000 on most of there workstations. And seeing as how other VNC's are failing I'm not even sure ARD would install and then work anyway.
If there is no way to access "System Preferences" remotely. Would someone please be kind enough to explain or point me to a link on how to use a "Fire Wire" connection and a Mini-Mac to start this server.
I have seen it done before..... where a Mac system was started using the operating system on another Mac system. Do I need a particular application?
Thanks in advance <smile>

Thank you VERY much for your replies.
I'm thinking that the operating system on this server must be unstable. I know that Disk Warrior has been run on it in the past. Plus AFP (Apple File Protocol) failed to launch after a restart recently. But getting all of the updates fixed that.
Since this is a CRITICAL server I think what I will do is give them an estimate for a brand new main boot hard drive and set the current hard drive aside as a fall back position.
It looks like Snow Leopard (10.6.**) requires an Intel Processor.
This XSERVE is a G5, RackMac 3,1 with Dual 2.3 processors and it looks like they are not Intel based processors????? But "PowerPC" based processors?????
If that is correct I will see if I can locate there copy of Tiger Server. They just bought SEVEN IMac's running 10.6.2 Snow Leopard and you should be able to get more then six years on a VERY expensive full blade server like this.
Anyway, in the mean time, I really need to see how to boot this server from a known good G5, AKA "Target Disk Mode"
I found a link and will try it either this weekend or the next. I work on a lot of week ends at the companies that I support to stay out of the way of the end users.
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/helpdesk/?p=293
Once again thank you all VERY much ........ "Live long and prosper" <smile>

Desktop does not show external Fire Wire Drive Buslink model MFW60

Running iMac fully maxed out. Have Buslink FireWire external drive, model MFW60 1394a. Purchased an adaoter plag in to connect through new Fire Wire port in back of machine. Got the drive to spin up and showed up on desktop. Tried to move a file from IMac to the Buslink and the whole system locked up. Only choice was to turn off everything . After rebooting, no Buslink showed up on the desktop. Disk utility sees it but each time I try to repair disk or even verify the disk utility is "not responding" and I am forced into" Force quit " to stop the disk utility rtask. I do have a Fire WIre USB 2 T backup external which is working fine.
Any ideas or help on getting the buslink to show up on desk top?

On the off chance, turn off Time Mschine, & add thst drive to silly Spotlight's Privacy pane.
One way to test is to Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, Test for problem in Safe Mode...
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive
Reboot, test again.
If it only does it in Regular Boot, then it could be some hardware problem like Video card, (Quartz is turned off in Safe Mode), or Airport, or some USB or Firewire device, or 3rd party add-on, Check System Preferences>Accounts (Users & Groups in later OSX versions)>Login Items window to see if it or something relevant is listed.
Check the System Preferences>Other Row, for 3rd party Pref Panes.
Also look in these if they exist, some are invisible...
/private/var/run/StartupItems
/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons
/Library/LaunchDaemons

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