Firewire 1814 and OSX 10.4.8

I just recently got a firewire 1814, and I am having trouble getting my new macbook to see it. I installed everything correctly, install the drivers on cd, shutdown computer, connect 1814, and then power on my computer. But the macbook still doesnt see it. Has anybody else had this problem? M-audio's drivers page has no driver set for the new OS. I NEED HELP!! thank you!

What version you use, is that the last version 1.7.4:
http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=support.drivers&k=driver&s=2&p=3dd58569d8828 cee4e812013e47dbb55&o=36
Also try to use their power adapter (even it said it is fire wire bus powered), for it might be not enough power to fire the box out from the cold.
Good Luck

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PeterBreis0807 wrote:
My take on what is supposed to happen is that the data is stored in Apple's iCloud server no matter how you put it there.
That to sync data from iCal and Address Book in Snow Leopard to the iCloud server you must manually register and connect to the iCloud.com website which I have done.
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Supposedly that means the data on the iCloud server is then shared between the iPod Touch, SL and ML, but it is not.
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But the problem exists on ML as well.
I get only some Contacts and iCal events transferring.
What you are seeing is probably from SL account which I use 95% of the time. Particularly my Address Book entries. I hardly entered any of those in ML, they virtually all come from SL and seem to have transferred previously. Possibly before the latest iOS updates, but I can't swear to that as I didn't check before/after.
The vast majority of my Address Book entries appear in both iCloud.com and my iPod Touch, but not my latest changes.
This is far from the "It just happens!" promised by Apple.
Peter

Firewire 1814 and OSX 10.4.8

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