Firewire card and MP

What would you recommend a firewire card for MacPRo?

OK. You will need to find a card that is a PCI/Express. Standard PCI cards will not work. The following have compatible cards:
SIIG (http://www.siig.com/productlist.asp?catid=14).
Akumen (http://www.akumen.com/store/home.php?cat=105).
Firewire Depot (http://fwdepot.com/thestore/default.php/cPath/129).
Of course there may be others, but these three I quickly found on Google.
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Firewire Card and Macpro using logic 7

What would you recommend a firewire card for MacPRo?
I am using LP7 with MOTU traveller; Liquid Mix and External HD and need to plug in more firewire without buying a hub:)!

Brilliant thanks, have now purchased!

Servers and firewire cards

I have a HP Proliant DL180 G5 server and was wondering if you can install a firewire card and if so where could I get one to fit the pci x4 slot?

Hi:
You may also want to post your question on the HP Business Support Forum -- DL Servers section.
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/ProLiant-Servers-ML-DL-SL/bd-p/itrc-264#.U4KACP1OXGg

440 MX VTD and firewire card

I have just installed and MX 440 VTD 8X AGP, which includes the video capture. Previously, I was only able to capture video from my DV camcorder using my firewire card. I got the new MSI card so that I could capture old videos from our older camcorder. Since I installed the new card, none of the video programs recognizes the camcorder when it is attached to the firewire port. I have an external hard drive that also runs off the firewire card and that is working okay. Is it possible that the video capture drivers that came with the MSI card are causing a problem with connecting the camera to the firewire port? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I am running Windows Me and have a Duron 750 MHz processor and 384 Mb RAM. The new MSI card has 64 Mb RAM.

Is this a conflict in the system information report?
They always have the same address, it's not a problem and there is nothing to fix.

2 DV Cameras on same firewire card.

The computer I was using for our broadcast did not have any Firewire ports, so I added a 3 port Firewire card. When I have 2 DV cameras hooked up to it VC3 will only recognize one and the other will be black.
Would it be better practice to use separate Firewire cards for each camera? Does anyone else have any problems running multiple DV Camcorders through Firewire?

Thanks for the reply. Just a follow up, I added a second Firewire card and all is well. No problems using to DV Camcorders now.

Cannot use Firewire Card on 10.2.8 OSX Wallstreet G3

I recently upgraded my G3 Wallstreet to 10.2.8. It currently has a minimal set of applications and I added Firefox which seems to run fine. Internet connectivity is great!
I bought and Adaptec AFW-1430A Firewire for Notebooks PCMCIA card. It came with a CD which just has OS 9 installer and extensions.
The card is recognized by the PB but the menubar icon drop down shows it as 'Unknown Vendor' (grayed out) and 'Firewire Controller' grayed out. The only option is 'Eject Card', which works fine.
I contacted their tech support which told me that the drivers for the card should be in OSX.
How can I figure that out?
Also, someone they asked me what my boot ROM is. System profiler doesn't show a boot room ID.

footie,
I have a cheap FireWire card and it is not be recognized by the Wallstreet in 9.x unless the card is present and I restart. At this point, my FireWire HD is hot-swappable; I can mount/unmount it as long as the FireWire card is not removed...then I have to restart to get the card mounted.
The same card has no issues in 10.x, meaning the FireWire PC card itself is hot-swappable. However, perform a restart to cover all bases.
If you are working in OSX and the HD is not mounting...
- Do you have the Finder Preferences set so HDs appear on the desktop? If not, the FW HD should still appear in a Finder window.
- Is this a known-good HD?
- Are you using the correct and known-good FireWire cable?
- With the FW HD connected, open your System Profiler and see if the HD is reported.
- Launch your Disk Utility in the Utilities folder. Does the HD appear in the left column?
- If you have installed the extensions for FireWire in 9.x, see if the FW HD will mount. These are the three necessary extensions:
FireWire Enabler
FireWire Support
FireWire CardBus Enabler
Once they are installed and you have restarted, check your Extensions Manager to make sure they are enabled (they should be default).

Firewire card installation failed, now won't boot into os x

G4 gigabit dual 450 was working fine except firewire port wasn't so I installed a firewire port card. On reboot i got/get a nice startup tone but the screen stops on the grey on grey apple image... with the grey bar circle spinning, and won't move into os x. I tried the button switch (PMU? counted to 12) by the internal battery, but no change. HELP, please...
(I took the firewire card out)

Hi
Dale Wiesshaar,
I installed YellowDog Linux last week. I deleted the installation, personal reasons, and tried to install this week.
Guess what happened? All three firewire ports are not working.
When trying to install YDL, the installation tries to load the ohci1394 driver and abends, dumps, throws and exception, whatever.
In addition, none of the 4 daisy chained firewire drives appear on the desktop. None of the additional 3 daisy chained firewire drives appear on the desktop. The firewire camera does not appear on the desktop.
So I broke the chain into a 15 feet chains, and distributed the chains over 2 external firewire ports. Four devices are on one chain, and two devices are on the other chain. The other firewire device was moved to the 12 port usb hub (this device switches b/w usb/firewire). The camera is off the chain entirely.
The following are the installed extensions on my mac:
IOFireWireAVC.kext
IOFireWireFamily.kext
IOFireWireIP.kext
IOFireWireSBP2.kext
IOFireWireSerialBusProtocolTransport.kext
This is the fix I performed: http://www.index-site.com/firewirebug2.html#RESETPMU
pull the plug on all devices and power mac; waited an entire day to replug
reset-all = in open firmware
reset parameter ram
broke up the chain of firewire devices to 15 feet each, on each port
blew any dust particles from the firewire ports
lastly, reset PMU
the battery is problably less than 2 years old (my mac is 10 to 12 years old; it is my personal computer)
None of the above fixes restored my firewire ports. Therefore, I purchased a firewire card. All firewire devices appear within the finder.app.
I am not able to install YDL. YDL allows me to perform a multiple boot:
Linux
MacOSX
MacOS
OpenFirmWare
CD
NetWork
(for security reasons i do not perform all of these boots)
When YDL attempts to load the ohci1394 driver, it fails. I removed the new firewire card, now I am back to circle one.
I will now try the following solutions:
combo update
repair permissions
If this does not work, I will reseat my fireWire card and not install YDL.
Thank you in advance for your assistance, and helpful post on the fireWire conumdrum.

Recommendations for USB and FireWire Card

Hi -
I am looking for recommendations for a USB 2.0 expansion card, and a Firewire expansion card for the
Mac Pro.
Thanks,
Dan Powers

The Sonnet PCI USB Express cards have this problem too - for the record. Sonnet know about the MacPro not waking with it installed, as do Apple. I am sure Apple willl come up with something, I may even find a workaround, but it has always seemed that expansion cards with all my Macs [ waaaay too many] have produced unpredicatable problems.

Firewire Card Recommendation for Duende and/or Ensemble

I am in the process of moving from a PPC to a Quad core 3.0 machine. Can anyone recommend a PCIE firewire card for running the Duende or the Apogee card?
I'm looking for something with 800 and 400 ports.
I've loaded this machine up with 16gb ram and 4 drives, is there anything I need to know as far as tweaks, any specific pcie slot to install the fw card as well as a UAD2 card?
Thanks in advance

Hi,
http://www.sonnettech.com/product/fw_adapter.html
I don't know about Ensemble or Duende but my Motu works on a LeCie D2 connected to the FW800 port of my G5 without problems...
seems to be more faster... but in any case just an adapter to be sure about stay close to FW800 commectors.
G

To capture the Mini-DV file through the 1394 firewire card from t

hii there!
first let mi make you understand what we people are doing ....
We people want to capture the Mini-DV file directly through the 1394 firewire card from the sony camcorder in to the MPEG2
format. Thent on the fly(i.e.during capturing into MPEG2) we also want to capture the metadata i.e (time,date etc. of the
original shooting event) into some text file. Our MPEG2 format requirements are: 8mbps viedeo,freq-48KHz,16 bit sterio,384
audio kbps, Deinterlace... we are using JavaMediaFramework-2.1.1e(Java Media Studio tool)..so we want to explore that tool
much more coz rightnow it's not supporting MPEG2(only supporting MPEG1) and also not supporting 1394 cpture card ...we want
the codec for converting DV-AVI to MPEG2 with date and time exctrated and much more explored details about JMf2.1.1 JavaMedia
Studio to get more familiar.....
for the above mentioned problem I am trying to add the mpeg2 codec inthe plugin of the jmf studio..and i have followed the
steps ..
Download the Codec from IBM
Extracted jmf.jar
Extracted codec.zip
Added files from codec folder to jmf folder
Made a jar out of it and name it jmf.jar
Replaced that with current jmf.jar (kept a backup)
Opened JMFRegistry and in "Plugins","Codec" and now unable to add " "
this becoz i am not knowing the exact way of recopiling that newly created jar file and because of that that mpeg-2 codedc is
not get added .....so i am looking forward for any help for the above mentioned problem!
I would be gratefull on getting ur help coz it's such challenging and techy concept to explore...
thanks..
nilesh hardikar
contact: [email protected]

I understand your pain. See BUG ID 4640032: JMF does not support DSVD encoding
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4640032
Add your vote, maye Sun will hear!

PCMCIA firewire card for G4 laptop (follow-up to excessive timecode breaks)

1.) It was recommended that I get a new firewire bus to resolve excessive timecode breaks when importing from a Canon camcorder to an external hard drive. I've been reading through posts on this topic...and saw getting a new firewire port mentioned a few times... How come when I called Apple to check on the cost of a new firewire card for my laptop Powerbook G4, I was told that nothing could be added without replacing the entire logic board? Am I missing something? I didn't say "PCMCIA firewire drive" - is that something special? Any idea of the cost to purchase and install?
2.) Apple recommended just capturing to my internal hard drive, and transfering the projects. Apart from this being cumbersome... I need a little verification: if I transfer PROJECT X to my external hard drive, then do I also need to transfer my Audio Render, Autosave,Capture Scratch, Render, Thumbnail, and Waveform folders? [I realize this is basic, but I'm wary of losing the information the project needs and getting it all messed up]
Powerbook G4, Mac OS X (10.3.9) FCP 4.5, LaCie external HD
Powerbook G4, Mac OS X (10.3.9) FCP 4.5, LaCie external HD

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?A=details&kw=BEAFWT2&is=REG&Q=&O =productlist&sku=304014
pcmcia is an card slot. If you have a 12" PB you may not have one.
If you have a pcmcia slot, buy the card. Slide the card into your computer and start up. Put the camcorder on the card and your fw drive on the port built-in to your computer. Even if this does not solve the timecode issues, it will save you other headaches in the future.
Question. Does capturing to your internal drive solve the timecode issues you are having?
I disagree with the advice of capturing to your internal drive and transfering the project after the fact. There are a bunch of reasons why, and all of them are qualified, so I hesitate to go further until I know whether or not capturing to the internal drive is making your timecode headaches go away.
I suspect capturing to the internal drive will not help the timecode issues which will make the whole point moot. But hopefully I'm wrong :>
Tom
ps
When you talk to representatives from Apple, you have to be conscious that if they are not specialists in the area you are focused on their advice may be based on general recommendations from an IT or home user perspective. There is a difference between talking to a sales person on the floor of the Apple Store and someone from the Genius Bar. And the person at the Genius Bar may have a tremendous background in network installations, but never have opened FCP. Or you might get lucky and get a FCP savvy genius, who would be a bit weak when talking about some other area.
This is not a knock, just a reality. It is difficult to be deeply conversant with even one area. It is not realistic for the generalists you usually deal with to know the best answers to very specific questions.
I'm working toward becoming a certified trainer with FCP and it is not easy or cheap to become an expert at this one application, never mind all the possible applications and hardware combinations for wildly different needs and budgets.

Problem connecting Firewire device and external HD at the same time

Hi. I'm attempting to record digital audio through a Presonus Firepod A/D interface via a Firewire 400 to 800 cable connected to one of the Firewire 800 ports on a mid-2010 Mac Pro running Snow Leopard.
The problem is that if I have an external HD connected to one of the other Firewire 800 ports on the computer and powered on at the same time, the connection to the Presonus Firewire device is not recognized by the Mac Pro. Not only that, performance of the Mac Pro is affected adversely and System Profiler is unable to list any Firewire devices. If I turn the external HD off, the Presonus device is recognized and listed in System Profiler and the machine runs fine. I'm able to connect two external hard drives via separate Firewire 800 ports on the Mac Pro and both drives mount w/ no problem. It's only when I try to connect one of the external HDs and the Presonus audio device at the same time that the problem occurs.
I used this same arrangement on a PowerMac G5 running Tiger w/ no problems whatsoever. If the 400 to 800 cable is bad, I would think it wouldn't work at all, but it does when only the Presonus Firepod is connected and powered on. Any ideas?

Have done more research and apparently this is not an uncommon problem: overloading the Firewire bus when connecting an audio device along with an additional device like an external hard drive. As I understand it now, audio signal is a bandwidth hog and the solution is to get a Firewire PCIe card which will have its own independent Firewire bus and which I'll use exclusively for my audio device.

Firewire 400 and 800 problem ? Need confirmation

OK, I have been running 2 external Lacie HD's over a USB hub into my MacBook Pro. A couple of weeks ago I decided that I needed more storage so purchased 2 Western Digital MyBook Pro's at 500GB.
I got these two specifically because I knew they supported Firewire 800 and wanted to take advantage of the high speed connection.
All is going well until yesterday.... Let me explain my set up. Firstly I am a DJ and use a Firewire Audiophile soundcard from M-Audio, this connects to the 400 port on my MacBook Pro, and the HD's connect to the 800... When I play music I get audio drop outs... I have looked through the forums and I am under the impression that both the 400 and 800 ports on my MacBook Pro run on the same connect, so is this the cause of the audio drop outs ?
I connect the 2 HD's via USB and have no problems, am I right in thinking that I have wasted good money on getting 2 HD's that I'm not going to be able to use the 800 port with ? When I run the audio through the internal soundcard I get no drop outs !
Also.... Just to annoy me even more I have a 20" cinema display so if I have use USB I decided to connect the two HD's to this and then to the MacBook Pro, now the problem here is when my MacBook Pro goes to sleep one of the HD's wakes up the MacBook Pro as it has been removed incorrectly ??? Do I now have a problem with one of my USB ports on the cinema screen also ????? I have put my iPod in the port and no problems ?
Does anyone know how I can solve these problems without having to spend even more money ?
And can someone confirm if the 400 and 800 ports are on the same connection, if so, whats the point ???
Thanks
- Neil

neil,
I wouldn't do that right away.. USB audio interfaces are usually at the more consumer end of the market, I don't think it's the best way to go just to solve your problem.
did you read the part in my post about PCexpress cards that give you a totally new and independent FW800 bus? seriously, I think this is your best bet. these cards first came out when the original series of MBP didn't have FW800 on them (only 400) much to the consternation of video pros.. so 3rd party vendors made a card solution. as I said, they aren't expensive, I would have thought around or under $100 US. connect one of those to your MBP's express slot and your problem is solved. you'll have a powerful, dedicated FW channel just for those FW800 drives you bought. then, your m-audio interface will be fine. and even if you still want to get rid of it and get a better interface, you won't be forced to go to USB which generally means opting for a lower end of the market interface.
also one other thing.. I don't know what your actual audio i/o needs are. but if you only ever work with stereo out and stereo in, ie, you never need more than 2 physical outputs and 2 physical inputs, then you have other options. the MBP (and in fact all macs) have optical digital audio built in. you can buy a 2in 2out digital to analog/analog to digital converter and connect it to the opticals. then, you'll never need to worry about FW or USB bandwidth ever again, nor will you ever need to think about drivers or compatibility or updates either.
on my MBP I use logic pro. and on this system, I only ever need a stereo out to hear what I'm working on with good quality.. and when I record actual audio tracks, it's only ever one source at a time, like a mic input or an instrument. so I do not need an interface at all, I use the opticals and I love it. I bought a mindprint trio, not the USB one, but the one that uses optical i/o. it just connects to the same connectors on the MBP that you would connect headphones or a mic, but obviously uses the digital optical signal not analog audio. it sounds really very good. the trio itself is a very handy little box that conveniently lets you do a lot of things to work comfortable when recording. and I just use built-in sound, no drivers needed ever, which is very much a rare relief in the audio world, believe me.
anyway, hope this helps. and seriously check out a card for FW800, in my opinion it's the best solution to your problem no matter which way you go.

LACIE HD'S WONT MOUNT. APPLE THINKS I NEED A SEPERATE FIREWIRE CARD.

I have 2 lacie hd's that will not mount they used to mount but now they will not. I have been back and forth to the Mac store and I have been on the phone with Lacie . My drives were tested and my computer was tested and nothing is wrong WITH EITHER. Apple seems to think that my fire wire bus on the computer may be interfering with the HD's and thats why the will not mount. They also said for me to install a fire wire card to just completely avoid using the fire wire ports on my Mac. Does any of this sound normal to you guys? And whats a good fire wire card to buy? Should I just stick with the Lacie brand since I have two lacie HD's?

I'm not sure if this would cause a problem, but you might want to check the filesystem of the hard drive. If it is something other than HFS or HFS+ (these are the apple filesystems) then it might not mount as well, but apple is known to support most filesystems so I don't know if that's the case.
If you want to purchase a firewire card you should go snoop around on www.macsales.com just go into the firewire section, and then into the pci/pcmcia sub section. You did not specify as to which firewire you are in need of (400 or 800) but you can check out that website to see what the deal is.
Also, I HIGHLY recommend the OWC External hard drives if you do not enclose them your self. OWC is www.macsales.com and I have a couple of their external drives (one standard 200GB and one 500GB dual RAID). After a couple years of use, I have never had a problem with my OWC hard drives (well the drive itself isn't made by them, but the enclosure is.)
Anyway, I've been ramblin on and on way too much, but I hope I could have been some help.

Capture through firewire card

hello friends,
I want to capture video using firewire port in my laptop. Is
it possible to capture through firewire card?... If so how can i do
it?. Please help me ....
regards

When we start the Flash Media Encoder, there is an option for
"Microsoft DV" and we just use that.
If this doesn't appear as an option for you, download
WebCamDV from a company called Orange Micro. The program is only
like $20, but it makes your 1394 port look like a webcam. It will
then appear as a 'device' in encoder and you can use it for audio
and video.
ps - we are using a Windows PC not a MAC for this.

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