Firewire 800 Readers non-existent except on ebay for $169?

Did someone stockpile them to sell them to mac users who don't have an express card slot in there mac seems crazy. Any comparisons on speed difference when reading from firewire 400/800 on high speed cards

Probably better to just get a USB2 or USB3 card reader.

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Thanks very much for a prompt reply! Much appreciated. Unfortunately, that's exactly the page I was on. And I used both Firefox and Safari and got the same page, with the same nothing...
As this forum doesn't allow attachments, I'll cut and paste the page here (there's not much):
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Learn more with these tutorials.
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That's all that's on the page. No buttons, URLs, menus… nothing. And just to confirm, the URL is as you gave: https://creative.adobe.com/products/download/photoshop
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ORA-22285 - non-existent directory or file for FILEOPEN operation

Hello
I want to insert the xmldata from a xmlfile to the a table, with this scirpt:
#!/bin/sh
set -x
for i in `find . -name "dspevent*.xml"| awk -F"/" '{print $NF}'`
do
echo $i
fname_old=$i
fname_neu=`ls $i | awk '{print "OK_"$0}'`
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echo $fname_neu
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INSERT INTO event_xml (name,
dtsysl,
hrsysl,
dtcptl,
nusesi,
dsp_step,
dsp_state,
bat_class,
bat_program,
bat_seqi,
bat_state)
SELECT *
FROM XMLTABLE (
'Operations/Event'
PASSING xmltype (BFILENAME ('EVENT_DIR', '$fname_neu'),
NLS_CHARSET_ID ('CHAR_CS'))
COLUMNS name VARCHAR (40) PATH 'name',
dtsysl DATE PATH 'dtsysl',
hrsysl NUMBER PATH 'hrsysl',
dtcptl DATE PATH 'dtcptl',
nusesi NUMBER PATH 'nusesi',
dsp_step VARCHAR (40) PATH 'DSP/step',
dsp_state VARCHAR (40) PATH 'DSP/state',
bat_class VARCHAR (40) PATH 'BAT/class',
bat_program VARCHAR (40) PATH 'BAT/program',
bat_seqi NUMBER PATH 'BAT/seqi',
bat_state VARCHAR (40) PATH 'BAT/state');
EOF
`
done
But the problem is, that I have always this error message:
ORA-22285 -> non-existent directory or file for FILEOPEN operation
I'd create a direcotrie and over utl_file.fopen I can write a file to this directorie, but this works over the path, not over the directory name. the utl_file_dir parameter was also set to the correct path. Whats wrong or how can I debug this problem?
thanks.
roger

- the name of the directory is correct.
- how can I check, that the user can use the directory?
- in this logfile you can see that, the file name will replace correctly:
./dspevent.sh
+ awk -F/ {print $NF}
+ find . -name dspevent*.xml
+ echo dspevent_db_20110503030448_10641.xml
dspevent_db_20110503030448_10641.xml
fname_old=dspevent_db_20110503030448_10641.xml
+ awk {print "OK_"$0}
+ ls dspevent_db_20110503030448_10641.xml
fname_neu=OK_dspevent_db_20110503030448_10641.xml
+ sed s/aps://g
+ cat dspevent_db_20110503030448_10641.xml
+ echo OK_dspevent_db_20110503030448_10641.xml
OK_dspevent_db_20110503030448_10641.xml
+ rm dspevent_db_20110503030448_10641.xml
+ sqlplus -s username/passwort@db
INSERT INTO event_xml (name,
dtsysl,
hrsysl,
dtcptl,
nusesi,
dsp_step,
dsp_state,
bat_class,
bat_program,
bat_seqi,
bat_state)
SELECT *
FROM XMLTABLE (
'Operations/Event'
PASSING xmltype (BFILENAME ('EVENT_DIR', 'OK_dspevent_db_20110503030448_10641.xml'),
NLS_CHARSET_ID ('CHAR_CS'))
COLUMNS name VARCHAR (40) PATH 'name',
dtsysl DATE PATH 'dtsysl',
hrsysl NUMBER PATH 'hrsysl',
dtcptl DATE PATH 'dtcptl',
nusesi NUMBER PATH 'nusesi',
dsp_step VARCHAR (40) PATH 'DSP/step',
dsp_state VARCHAR (40) PATH 'DSP/state',
bat_class VARCHAR (40) PATH 'BAT/class',
bat_program VARCHAR (40) PATH 'BAT/program',
bat_seqi NUMBER PATH 'BAT/seqi',
bat_state VARCHAR (40) PATH 'BAT/state');
INSERT_XML= PASSING xmltype (BFILENAME ('EVENT_DIR', 'OK_dspevent_db_20110503030448_10641.xml'),
ERROR at line 15:
ORA-22285: non-existent directory or file for FILEOPEN operation
ORA-06512: at "SYS.XMLTYPE", line 296
ORA-06512: at line 1
+ echo dspevent_db_20110502190712_10641.xml
dspevent_db_20110502190712_10641.xml

What FireWire 800 drive (2.5") to build/buy for MacBook Pro?

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3-year warranty an absolute minimum, 5 years
would be ok (my current WD MyPassport has 5). Reason is I consider if manufacturers trust their drive for 5 years, it shouldn't be a source of worry for many years to come. I consider 2-year warranty to be substandard drives.
2.5" form factor. Reason is I rarely happen to have enough room or steady power to lay and plug a full 3.5" drive, unless it uses a battery, which is extremely rare and would add bulk in my bag.
Ability to saturate FW800 port. I think a more performant drive would be a waste of money since they constantly go down in price, and I may be able to get a better deal by the time I switch to Thunderbolt-based MacBook Pro. Admittedly, this is a "soft" requirement, given expected use.
Under $150 (would come to $170 tax,S&H included)
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Handmade from performance platter drives, i.e. Western Digital Scorpio Black + FW800 enclosure. Major drawback: wouldn't saturate a FW800 port since it comes in SATA300 flavor only, but I get the strong feeling it would perform better than many manufactured drives.
Handmade from SSD, i.e. Corsair + FW800 enclosure. Major drawback: from this page, major compromises would have to be made on capacity. Affordable SSDs seem to be limited to 40 or 60GB, and while I don't put capacity as a priority, I may have to use the high-performance drive for other tasks, such as editing short high-def movies, or add a third virtual machine. Considering the Windows virtual drive needs to be around 15GB, and 25 for Ubuntu, 60GB wouldn't leave enough elbow room.
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Reply on a dead topic:
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Slow or none existent BBC and EBAY

Unable to reliably connect to either BBC or EBAY sites amongst other. It's been like this for over a month, is there any official acknowledgement and or action plan to remedy the problem.
Typically sites come through with missing links like the BBC today

john46 wrote:
other than that there are no reported problems
Your kidding me right?
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We have configured a ESA for a customer whose appliance was broken down because of a software problem and being replaced with a new one by cisco.
Today we have a big problem about Reverse DNS. When they send email to their customers, the remote mail servers reject their messages. I double check the configuration and haven’t found anything. If we route mail traffic over exchange instead of ironport, there aren’t any problem. The broken device worked about 6 months without being connected. Also, the remote server sends a message like:
Diagnostic information for administrators:
Generating server: mail.xyz.com.tr
[email protected]
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Has anyone come across this type of problem or error code?

Please check the IP address from which the mail is being delivered to the remote server. This address might differ when the mail is routed through the exchange and through IronPort.
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What do I need to support my FireWire 800 gear on a new iMac

I need to replace my antique mac pro 1.1
I am now retired and my needs tend more towards games than av creation so the new Mac Pro is not only overkill but the dual video I here is not optimized for games in any case.
The problem is all of my existing FireWire 800 gear and no FireWire ports on the new iMac designs
I guess I need to buy an external thunderbolt case for the 4 2 terabyte drives in the old pro do any of the external T-bolt cases offer good FireWire 800 support (full speed support) for all of my old gear?
Are there other ways to support these devices than an external t-bolt case for sata drives?
And for a game playing iMac is a fusion drive or a large solid state drive best choice bearing in mind I will have about 10 terabytes of FireWire and t-bolt external storage ( I was thinking of making the drives in the required t-bolt external case a raid array for best performance)
So what external t-bolt drive case should I buy and if it does not support a set of FireWire 800 ports what external t-bolt gadget for that support should I buy?
Thanks

Windshadow99 wrote:
I looked at those but would it not be far better to have a gadget that plugged into a t-bolt port and then had a bunch of FireWire 800 ports on it? There must be lots of folks that like me invested in FW800 gear with their older computers and need something like this.
Perhaps, though as with anything it depends on your needs. I don't know of any such device, though. All the Thunderbolt docks I've seen that have Firewire at all have only a single port. You could use a TBolt to FW adapter with Thunderbolt ports in a dock, though. A Firewire hub isn't a lot of good other than providing multiple connectors since all devices are on the same FW bus and hence not really much different from daisy-chaining. There's certainly no performance improvement and probably not much in the way of stability improvement either.
I was told a long time ago back in the mac 2fx sccsi days that daisy chaining things should be avoided and giving things their own pro was better does this advice sill hold good?
SCSI was very different (and usually wasn't a problem as long as it was terminated correctly). Daisy-chaining FW is different, though it very much depends on the devices and the sort of throughput you need. Daisy-chaining Thunderbolt should be no problem at all as long as the devices support it.
Regards.

Thunderbolt to Firewire adapter - does it exist yet?

Has anyone actually made a Thunderbolt to Firewire adapter that you can purchase yet? I know it's early days, not complaining, just hoping hoping......

FireWire does provide power to connected devices, up to a specified limit (though I don't know what the limit is myself). This is why properly designed portable FireWire hard drives are able to be used without external AC power.
FireWire will never be able to move data at Thunderbolt speed.
Up to now, every Mac that has a Thunderbolt port also has a FireWire 800 port, with the exception of the two current MacBook Air models. For people who buy those MBAs and already have FireWire devices, a FireWire-to-TB adapter would be useful. For those with other TB-equipped Macs, not so much.

Firewire 800, 7200 rpm external drive options?

I have a Early 2011 Macbook Pro (8,2). I'm looking for a speedy external harddrive to do video editing with. My internal drive is a 256GB OCZ Agility 3 SSD...not a lot of space to store video. So I'd like a fast external.
Problem is, the few Firewire 800, 7200 rpm external drives I've found on Amazon all have TERRIBLE reviews when used with Macs. For some reason, none of these things from Buffalo or Western Digital seem to work with Macs, according to Amazon reviews.
Can anyone recommend a 1 TB external with Firewire 800 and 7200rpm that would be good for video editing, that also works on a Mac 8,2 Early 2011 running the latest OS X?
Thanks!

I have a 1 TB Lacie d2 Quadra but it's a desktop external disk. It's a great disk with FireWire 800, eSATA and USB 2.0 and 3.0. If you are going to use the MacBook Pro at home, I recommend this drive

New imac has only one firewire 800 port?

Is there a hub or repeater you can use instead of daisy chaining. Can't figure out why my old imac has two firewire ports and the new imac has one. How are others managing multiple hard drives? I wish to use a hub for my firewire connections. What is the best way. thanks

You can locate Firewire hubs however they are expensive. I have had 3 Firewire 800 external HD's daisy chained together for 3 years that work flawlessly. The drives I have come with 2 FW 800 ports so this is quite easy, there are several top quality external HD's that are similar including:
OWC Mercury Pro line
Lacie Quadra D2 line (this is what i have)
G-Tech G series line
All of these drives have similar specifications and are all high quality products. I think you will find them to be the most recommended on these forums.
BTW your old iMac had 1 Firewire port and 1 Firewire 800 port not 2 firewire ports.
Regards,
Roger

HD with FireWire 800 Recommendation/Suggestion

I'm looking for an external hard drive with FireWire 800 connectivity (ideally a Quad) to use for my Time Machine backup with MacBook Pro. Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Btw, here are a few that I've have seen recently:
1. $199.00 -- WESTERN DIGITAL MY BOOK STUDIO EDITION 500GB EXTERNAL QUAD. link: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/522057-REG/WesternDigital_WDH1Q5000N_500_GB_MyBook.html
2. $189.99 -- Iomega Professional 500GB 3.5" External Hard Drive - 7200, 8MB, FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0. link: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=32893 33&CatId=2427
3. $229.95 -- From FireWire Direct: 500GB/7200rpm 3.5" Ultra IVs 'QUAD' FireWire800, USBv2.0 & eSATA Professional External Hard Drive Subsystem. link: http://www.firewiredirect.com/product/581/

I recommend the Rocstor 500GB or 750GB model 800AV...
http://www.rocstor.com/Products/rocpro-800av.html
I love it because it has an internal power suppy (so it accepts a standard universal power cable). That's great if you ever forget your power cable at home! Easy to scrounge up a spare!
Also it comes with a great travel case. Plus it has FW 800, 400, and USB 2 ports.
This is good because if you have it hooked up on FW 800, on your MacBook Pro, you will need to connect other FW perhiperals into the drive's FW 400 port insteat of the MBP's 400 port since you can't use the 400 and 800 ports at the same time due to the bus maximum being 800 MBS.

Firewire 800 HDD

I wish to add an external drive to my iMac for time machine backup (at least 1TB) of my movies and music. My firewire 400 port is for my audio interface and the USBs are for printer, camera etc. I work with Final Cut Express and Logic Studio so my hard drive is quickly filling up! I assume the firewire 800 will be the one to choose for speed - any thought or recommendations?

There are three popular manufacturer's and models of FW 800 drives on this forum, each are high quality products and all have similar feature sets. Personally I use option #2 however option #1 seems to be the most popular one here.
1. OWC Mercury Elite series
2. Lacie Quadra D2 series
3. G-Tech G Drive Series
Regards,
Roger

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I bought a Seagate Backup Plus (Windows & Mac) external hard drive. The specs don't mention "FireWire 800"...should I return it for the Mac-only and does that have a FireWire 800 update that I saw mentioned on the Seagate site for Backup Plus?

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I currently have a MAC Mini, which has 1 Firewire 800 port. I have a 1TB external hard disk that runs at Firewire 400. Can I insert another external hard drive that runs at Firewire 800?

Here's the deal. Currently running SL 10.6.8 on a MAC Mini. Planning for eventual upgrade to ML. Have a 1TB external hard drive partitioned into two volumes, one volume for Time Machine and one volume for SL which I periodically update using Superduper. Thus I always have a point-in-time bootable backup on the external hard drive.
The MAC Mini supports Firewire 800. However, booting from my current external hard disk is pretty slow, since it only supports Firewire 400. I am considering buying an Iomega MiniMax which supports Firewire 800. Then, I would use the MiniMax as my bootable backup volume, and relegate the older hard drive to Time Machine.
So, question #1 is, can I daisychain the new MiniMax between the MAC Mini and my existing external hard drive? My expectation is that the new Mini Max would run using Firewire 800 and that the existing hard drive would run at Firewire 400 speed as it does today. If it doesn't (e.g., daisychaining in the Firewire 400 external disk with the MiniMax Firewire 800 external disk ends up running the whole leg at 400), my resolution will be to run the existing hard disk off an available USB port and have just the MiniMax running at Firewire 800.
Why am I going to all this trouble? That's question #2. I don't trust upgrades; they always break something. When I upgraded from 10.5.x to 10.6.x, the web directories got renamed, and all of my web apps 403'd until I figured out what happened. Plus, I have accounts for other family members, and in order to ensure their ability to use the computer during my upgrade process, I need to have the ability to fall-back quickly to a known-stable version of OSX. So what I'm trying to do is insulate myself from problems by partitioning the MiniMax into two volumes, taking a Superduper image of my current installation on the Mac Mini to MiniMax external drive volume 1, then upgrading to ML on the MAC Mini, and take a SuperDuper image of that to MiniMax external drive volume 2. Then, if the upgrade results in problems I can't resolve immediately, I can simply reimage the MAC Mini from MiniMax volume 1. BUT ...
... I've read that the ML installation creates a "service and support" partition that is different than the startup disk. I'm concerned that I won't be able to reimage the hard disk in the MAC Mini once I upgrade it to ML because of the partitioning changes it introduces on the startup disk. Theoretically, I +should+ be able to use the disk utility on my SL system to repartition the disk in the MAC Mini prior to reimaging it from my backup, but I'm considering the possibility that the new partition may be of a type that the SL disk utility cannot identify, and might therefore be unable to delete or even detect. So I'm hoping someone else has been down this road and can advise me. Even at Firewire 800 speeds, booting from an external disk is still going to be slow, so I want to be able to restore my SL image to the MAC Mini hard disk.
A little background on me. I work for a major disaster recovery provider. I used to have a Mac PRO G5, which I got used, and the first thing I did with it was install a second hard disk, SuperDupe an image from the first disk to the second, and made sure I could boot from the second. THEN I started using and customizing the MAC. I really feel vulnerable with the MAC Mini, since it only has the single internal hard drive - sort of like going out in public dressed only in a long T-shirt. So my whole thing is, I ABSOLUTELY MUST BE ABLE TO PUT THINGS BACK THE WAY THEY WERE before I do the migration to ML.
Obsessive-cumpulsive? Yep. Anal? You got it. That's why I'm in the DR business.

You may have overloaded the port, following the instructions below it should reset:
+1. Shut down the computer.+
+2. Disconnect all devices and all other cables, except the keyboard and mouse cable(s).+
+3. Disconnect the computer from the power outlet and wait for 3 to 5 minutes.+
+4. Plug the computer back in and turn it on.+
+5. Reconnect the device(s) (one at a time if there is more than one) and test. Test with each port if you have more than one.+
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1317?viewlocale=en_US

Daisy chaining two Lacie Firewire 800 drives on a G%

I've had one external drive working perfectly for months. Tried to daisy chain a second drive and can't get the second drive to register on my desktop. Support said to reboot. My system freezes upon shutting down. If I restart with the two connected, neither drives shows and my Eye TV shuts down. As soon as I disconnect the second drive, Eye TV works and the one drive appears. Any suggestions? Apple Care had none except purchasing a port that would handle firewire 800. How trustworthy would that be?

I've tried daisychaining a new d2 Big Disk Extreme FW800 and a d2 FW800 drive on my G5's FW 800 bus. I can't copy files from one drive to the other without an Error -36 code. I CAN copy to and from the drives to the Mac at nice fast speeds with no errors. Both LaCie drives are updated to their latest firmware, respectively.
The few times that I was able to copy a small folder from the d2 to the Big Disk, it took forever.
As a result of this thread, I'm now awaiting the delivery of a Belkin FW800 3 port hub. I hope this will clear up this issue, as I need to be able to move data between the two drives (both of which passed their tests via Disk Utility, Drive Genius, and DiskWarrior in flying colors).
I have noticed the older d2 FW800 has a lower firmware number than the Big Disk, however, the LaCie Update Tool reports that each drive is at its current appropriate firmware number. And yes, I ran the Update Tool independently on each drive, while the other was unmounted and unplugged.
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