"firewire support" and "firewire enabler"

Anyone know where I can download the latest versions of extensions "firewire support" and "firewire enabler" for OS9.2.2? (G4). Thanks.

If the PRAM battery in your G4 is the original battery and has never been replaced, these batteries only last 5-6 years, max.
Also, the PRAM battery can go bad quickly if the your G4 has not been plugged into power and has been off of direct electrical power for a week or more.
This is because the PRAM battery stays charged up with a trickle charge inside a Mac when in is still plugged into a power main. Even if the Mac is shut off, but still plugged into power.
When an older PowerMac has not been plugged into power, there is no trickle charging of the PRAM battery and this battery can permanently lose its power in a short period of time as it is the only power that is keeping the actual current Parameter RAM active until the battery exhausts itself.
A low or dead PRAM battery can cause all sorts of operational weird issues with a Mac.
An inexpensive source of this PRAM battery can be found online here.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/BAA36VPRAM/

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Is there a difference between firewire 800 and firewire 400 besides the connectors

is there a difference between firewire 800 and firewire 400 cables besides the connectors?

Speed. 800 is up to twice the speed, and sometimes faster. You can connect the two connectors with a cable that fits both ends, but you will be left with the slowest speed.

Daisy-chaining firewire 400 and firewire 800?

I would like to daisy-chain two Western Digital MyBook Pros to a Macbook:
- FW 400 from Macbook to first drive
- FW 800 between the drives
Would this work or not? I have one of those, they have 2 x FW 800, 1 x FW 400, 1 x USB at back.
(If not, I'll buy a 'Premium' which has 2 x FW 400, and 1 x USB..)

JoeyR wrote:
I'm not sure if the hardware in the first drive, that's connected by firewire 400 is "smart" enough to jump the data over to the FW800 connectors for daisy chaining.
Just pulled this from the WD site. I would say this indicates it would work. You won't get more speed but they should work daisy chained. This indicates the drive is smart enough to do this.
+Question: Will Western Digital FireWire 400 (1394a) external hard drives work connected to a FireWire 800 (1394b) port?+
+Answer: The FireWire 800 Specification (1394b) states that FireWire 400 devices will work while connected to a FireWire 800 (1394b) port. The FireWire 400 cable (4-6 pin or 6-6 pin) will not connect to a FireWire 800 port (9 pin) therefore you will need to connect the hard drive using a FireWire 400 to FireWire 800 cable (1394a to 1394b cable). These cables are available at most computer stores.+

Does Target Disk Mode work between FireWire 400 and FireWire 800 ports?

Can I mount one as an external volume for the other Mac and vice versa? The one with FireWire 400 port runs on OS X 10.5, and FireWire 800 one has OS X 10.6 installed. If it works, I am thinking of buying an 800-400 adapter.

Can I mount one as an external volume for the other Mac and vice versa?
Yes.
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Temporarily freezing audigy 2 and firewire not working - sol

hi,
i had two problems with my audigy 2 using windows xp:
a) my firewire port didnt appear to work. i had only one device using firewire which was my creative jukebox zen. i could only transfer 95% of the first mp3 and then it would say that my mp3 player is not responding.
b) i experienced random and temporary freezes, not only while gaming but even when writing e-mails. everything would hang for a few seconds and then continue to work like if you write text it will appear after the hang.
firewire: i used my audigy 2 in my old pc with windows me and win 2000 without any problems. neither with firewire nor with the eax4 driver patch. under win xp i could only transfer mp3s via usb and that is slow as hell as you can imagine. i first tried if transfers using the firewire port on my mobo worked but it didnt, same prob. i found a fix from microsoft that is not listed in windowsupdate at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en (KB885222). that did not solve this issue but maybe you need that too so I mention it here. then i found some new drivers on the creative site. "oh you fool, why didnt you say earlier that you're using old drivers?" someone might say but these drivers dont work or more specifically, its setup routine sux. it quits with "an error occurred". wow cool... but it appears as it unpacks the driver to c:\program files\creative\jukebox3 or something (note, i have a zen and not a jb3...) so I uninstalled everything, rebooted and told the device manager manually to get the drivers from that location. now it works.
freezes: it took me many, many hours to search the internet, but i found absolutely nothing. sure i'm using the latest drivers (yea they actually work), put the card in slot3 and stuff. then i found a post on this board that mentioned that this guy's audigy had a heat problem. it became too hot and hung. hmm. i have 2x 2cm fans sucking heat out of the box through the radiator of my water cooling so heat is actually mostly get rid of through water and whatever else produces heat (harddisc, video card ram etc) is cooled by some really strong air flow. so wth, this card has worked for almost 2 years in my old box. so i opened the case and saw that air circulation around the audigy was impossible as its sandwitched by two other cards. those parts that i was able to touch were not that hot but i dont know how hot the main chip became and i have no clue why a sound card can become too hot from playing an mp3... anyway, i have left my case open and since then i havent had any freezes. now i also know why the freezes suddenly appeared and not since after i setup my box 3 months ago: it was open until i had cut a hole for the radiator...
oh yea, its good that my expensi've creative stuff works and that it was not creative's fault but that of a moron of a user. now honestly, how is an average user supposed to get their product working when the knowledge base is totally outdated and gives advice such as "update your bios, get the latest drivers and dont put your card into the microwave", when mods in this forum give advice like the knowledge base and the driver is not even installable? creative products are not bad at all, they're not cheap at all too. but the support page is absolutely not informati've and the knowledgebase does not give solutions to known issues. i was never ever able to find anything useful there and i'm really really not an average user but a very experienced one. not everyone wants to use a pre-installed dell box with el-cheapo components. i like to put my own high-end rig together and things must be pushed to the limit BUT still be absolutely rock solid. let me list my recent experience with creative products during the past 2 years:
-) bought an inspire 6. surround system and even replaced my audigy with version 2 for it. but unfortunately the subwoofer had a problem. it randomly made a popping noise which was so loud that it pushed your adrenaline level to that of a base jumper. i then found out that the whole batch had some faulty component. at least i got a replacement within a week, so i thought "yea, great support".
-) bought a jukebox zen, 20gb with firewire. it worked great for almost a year. then it died. when i switched it on, only the creative logo appeared, thats it. recovery mode was inaccessible too. it took me 2 months to convince the support lady to let me return this junk. first they sent me a new adapter because maybe it was damaged and the battery was low and therefore it didnt work anymore... then i was told, ok you can have a new one but we dont have firewire versions in stock anymore. you can have a usb one now or you wait until we get the firewire zen again. i said wtf, you produce this so why dont you have them in stock? and the usb version is sure not an equivalent to my firewire player. woot after 2 months i got a new mp3 player... had to rip 250 cds again (i really prefer having originals) and copy them to the player, but ok, i'm happy again. no, i'm not. this one doesnt work properly either. everytime i dont use the player for more than 24 hours i have to rebuild the database and scan the harddisc. that takes about 0 minutes for like 3000 songs!! grr... but i didnt want to argue with the tech support about that, i can li've with that. maybe i can flash to an older bios if i find one somewhere. from what i read somewhere it is caused by the zen going from hibernate into "off power" mode and then it forgets a few things.
and now i had the two issues described above and had to find a solution myself because the support pages dont help at all. sure you can say i should have thought of a heat problem but all important components are watercooled (even the north bridge) and i had some good airflow in general, but not around the sound card. and who knows that the audigy is that sensiti've to heat and that a sound card even gets hot at all. i've never heard of sound card cooling... i'm not that disappointed about the quality of the hardware because it is ok imo, but with the horrible lack of quality of the support and the buggy driver installation. hey, you get free advice by your customers, think about that. they tell you by themselves what the problem is and what they think may cause it. sure many posts are just flames but you should take ppl here more seriously. and if other manufacturers are to blame then put a list together like: msi k8n neo2 platinum - in this case upgrade to bios .2 or in that case install this or turn on/off that.
alright, i hope anyone can use this information. sorry for the length but i wanted to describe things as precisely as necessary. cheers from austria.
(edit: a typo)Message Edited by Temujin666 on 0-05-2005 03:49 AM

Hi folks,?Initially my audigy 2 nx was not working. But after installing the drivers for vista it started to work. But unfortunately, the other application from creative media source is not working. When I press EAX it says '[color="#000099">the application with the device not found'. But the sound card is working fine.[color="#000099">?[color="#000099">I have even mailed creative with the details. They have sent me a mail with the drivers and an application driver. I have installed the application driver too, but still no luck.[color="#000099">?[color="#000099">Kind regards,[color="#000099">Jwell[color="#000099">?

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.

Apple's Technical Service Provider complaint and Firewire Target Disk solution

As being my first post, my greetings to the community!
First of all, I would like to clarify that despite I start with a post that includes some negative comments for the Apple's Technical Support Service Provider, which I visited for my problem, I wouldn't like to give the impression that I want to generally spread a negative attitude against them, but only to describe my specific issue. Anyway, only that I haven't visited them so far, after over a 3-year period of using my computer, is a self-explained positive aspect. I've also read that complaints should refer directly to customer's support service, though it is the users with whom I want to share the knowledge resulting from my last experience.
My story/problem has been as following: My computer has failed to boot, I tried some of the tips and advices online and due to the facts that I didn't have the installation disk with me and that I was under stress to recover some of my files, I was urgently needing, I decided to visit an Apple's Technical Support Service Provider. I was hoping for a quick solution, since from the beginning it wouldn't seem to be a hardware failure. I had read about the Target Disk Mode utility and I was at least looking forward to a backup, in case my hard drive was still functioning.
For starters, the provider I finally visited (Sofia, Bulgaria), was not mentioned on the Apple's web page locator. However, I first visited a Reseller, who directed me to the technical service office (other building). Also for starters, I would like to mention that the personnel was totally polite in every case. Now, for the main issue. The technician there connected my laptop via Ethernet cable to another computer, ran a test, which showed that the hardware was working and replied that he cannot know the problem, so I have to leave my computer there for 2-3 days, in order to examine it thoroughly. Luckily, I would leave the country in 2 days and I was needing the files the same day or maximum the following one, so I couldn't follow this option. "Luckily", though, while for the moment I saved 40 euros, the price for examining my problem, regardless spare parts that might would be needed and a value for a backup that I would have might asked. I explained him that I don't have the installation disk with me, just in case he could do the repair disk there, and that I read somewhere that the computer could be connected to another computer via Firewire cable and the hard disk to be seen as an external hard disk, giving me the chance to recover the files I was urgently desiring. The answer to the above was that I can only leave the computer there and I would be informed in 2-3 days. I respect the priority I had to share with other customers, but, on the other hand, to backup 2-3 files and save my life, I don't consider it (specially now that I know) a big of a deal. More important, he wouldn't give me any advice to follow myself. Conservative policy to secure responsibility issues from their part or to secure the payment for a potential check in their house?
First, I didn't try to search for the solution, provided that I didn't have any clue from the technician and that there was no chance to find someone with another mac, but also while I couldn't risk to loose time to search for a backing up solution rather to start immediately with remaking my project (I was using 3ds Max, therefore I could work on a Windows pc). So, following is the next level of my problem and the final solution.
When I got free time, I searched more and while, as I mentioned, I couldn't find another mac, I ended up to the option of being able to mount my mac's hdd to a Windows pc, after using a 3rd-party application (MacDrive in my case) and Firewire cable to link the 2 computers (Target Disk Mode). The result was that the hard disk of my mac was recognised at the Control Panel's Devices, but wouldn't be browsed. It turned to be hard to find information related to my problem, since I guess not many people have faced the exact one. The credits for the solution go here http://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/Firewire-1.htm (thank you so much), were there's an article related to how to solve Windows 7 Firewire issues. The problem was that the Firewire drivers had to switched back to the older version (legacy), which is strange, but it worked perfectly. I'm currently happily backing up my disk.
I hope this post will save time and pain for people having the same issues and I'm sorry for the thorough details I've used in order to describe accurately my concerns.
Cheers!

thanks neil, the laptop originally came with a 10 gig ibm deathstar ata drive which i replaced a couple of years ago with a 40 gig ata. i thought that maybe some necessary drivers weren't installed onto the drive since it isn't an apple branded drive but i couldn't find anything online or on apple's site to confirm that.
the titanium's ATA is controlled via cable select right?

How do I get firewire support under XP running on OSX 10.8.2?

I have an old Nikon film scanner that is bundled with Nikon scanning software that requires Windows XP. The film scanner has only a firewire cable. My iMac is running OSX 10.8.2. I installed Oracle's (free) VirtualBox and was able to get XP running on my mac. However, I soon discovered that VirtualBox has no firewire support. That sent me searching for other methods of running XP under OSX. I thought Apple's Parallels 8 software would do the trick but I don't believe it supports firewire either.
Can anyone give me an idea of what software would allow me to run XP with firewire support under OSX 10.8.2?
Another question: Do those firewire-to-USB adapter plugs work and are they safe to use?
For those who have familiarity with film scanners, VueScan is not a desirable option for me because it does not fully support Digital Ice, while Nikon's software does.
Thanks..

OS X Lion: Use another Mac as a display
It also works with Mountain Lion.

M-Audio 1814 and FireWire 800

I am working on a MBP and Logic 8, using the Vienna Symphonic Library on external hard drives, one 250 GB LaCie, the second a 500 GB Maxtor. When I use the external hard drives with FireWire 800 first the Audio Interface starts clicking, using Logic 8 the system crashes seriously. If I use the FireWire Hub on the back of my Cinema Display, the 1814 is not recognized.
For the use of the VI-Library I need fast hard drives, the CPU seems not to be the problem. Why I cannot use FireWire 400 (Audio Interface) and Firewire 800 hard drives?

Thank you Chris, I just wonder why Bee Jay can use the HD FW800 with the M-Audio Firewire interface without problems.
I use the ext HD for backup too, but sometimes I need to find something in my backups and I have to turn off the audio interface and copy the files on my internal HD ... then turn off the drive again and turn on the M-Audio ... it's very annoying.
In some forum I read that the problem can be the firewire chipset, but my iMac has the Lucent and the MacBook Pro has the TI (reccomended by M-Audio) ... same problem on both machines.
I did some test:
1) If I use the FW800 external HD and the FW400 with iMovie and my Video Camcorder I have no problem at all. I tried to use the HD at maximum (during a time machine backup I was copying other files and saving the HDV files in the same external HD) and everything works perfectly without loosing a single frame.
2) If I connect the HDV camcorder to the M-Audio interface I cannot even start the capture ... I have to turn off the external FW800 HD.
It looks that the problem is definitely in the M-Audio Firewire driver but unfortunatley the M-Audio e-mail support is only for US customers ... and I'm Italian.
Is there any US customer that has this problem and can insist with the M-Audio support?
Maybe they can solve it in the next release ...
Thank you in advance.

Firewire support

i find it very hard to believe that ipods no longer support firewire connections. i called them and asked why this is and they gave me some bull s*&t answer. they said that usb is more popular than fire wire. when i said that is a load of bull since all macs since about 2000 come with 2 fire wire ports and the new dells come with it she didnt know what to say and just said they arent as popular.
any one know why they are doing this? is there any way to use a fire wire cable with the new 60 gig?

I don't speak for Apple but IMO, this was primarily due to the so many PCs not having a Firewire connection.
Does your iMac not have a USB 2.0?
I and many others agree about the loss of Firewire support but the following was copied from another thread here on this subject.
480Mb copied from iPod:
USB 1.1 - 11 min 15 seconds (G4/1GHz)
USB 2.0 - 2 min 44 seconds (G5, 2.0 dual)
(for comparison, the same folder copied in 2 min 18 seconds via FW from my 3g iPod)
In this experiment, USB 2.0 was only 26 seconds slower than Firewire to transfer 480 MB so the transfer rate using USB 2.0 is not extremely slower than using Firewire.
I don't believe there is a way to use a Firewire cable to transfer data with a new iPod.

Lost the access to the first partion of the firewire drive and the data ?

Hello to everybody,
after i moved 5,5GB Data from my internal harddisk, HFS+ , to my external Firewire drive, FAT 32 formatted for compatilibilty with a PC, i lost the access to the first partion of the firewire drive and the data. At first after having appearently finished copying the data a lot of ununderstable numbers and letters appeared on the first partion and couldn't be opened.
Using first aid showed the following messages:
1.
volume „disk2s5“ testing
** /dev/disk2s5
** Phase 1 - Read FAT
** Phase 2 - Check Cluster Chains
** Phase 3 - Checking Directories
Root directory doesn't start a cluster chain
Error: the basic (????? ) process shows an error by finishing (-9972)
German original message:
Fehler: Der zugrundeliegende Prozess meldete einen Fehler beim Beenden. (-9972)
2.
volume „disk2s5“ testing
** /dev/disk2s5
** Phase 1 - Read FAT
** Phase 2 - Check Cluster Chains
** Phase 3 - Checking Directories
Root directory doesn't start a cluster chain
Error: the basic (????? ) process shows an error by finishing (-9972)
German original message:
Fehler: Der zugrundeliegende Prozess meldete einen Fehler beim Beenden. (-9972)
Volume „FIRE2“ testing
** /dev/disk2s6
** Phase 1 - Read FAT
** Phase 2 - Check Cluster Chains
** Phase 3 - Checking Directories
** Phase 4 - Checking for Lost Files
16 files, 726592 free (1880420 clusters)
Volume „FIRE 3“ testing
Mounting Disk** /dev/disk2s7
** Phase 1 - Read FAT
** Phase 2 - Check Cluster Chains
** Phase 3 - Checking Directories
** Phase 4 - Checking for Lost Files
149 files, 2866032 free (441271 clusters)
Volume „FIRE 4“ testing
Mounting Disk** /dev/disk2s8
** Phase 1 - Read FAT
** Phase 2 - Check Cluster Chains
** Phase 3 - Checking Directories
** Phase 4 - Checking for Lost Files
2755 files, 1396016 free (873683 clusters)
3 Volumes tested
0 HFS-Volumes tested
2 Volumes with an other type than HFS tested
1 Volume couldn't be tested
1 Volume wasn't tested
3.
First Aid interrupted the testing of "disk2s5" because the the following error has appeared:
the basic (????? ) process shows an error by finishing
German orignal message:
Das Festplatten-Dienstprogramm hat überprüfen „disk2s5“ unterbrochen, da der folgende Fehler aufgetreten ist:
Der zugrundeliegende Prozess meldete einen Fehler beim Beenden.
As i translated the First Aid messages from german to english they will probably look a bit different in english but i hope you get the idea.
So what can i do to regain access to the first partion and the data ?
If i have to use the terminal then please !!! step by step as i don't have any experience in using it
Greetings and thanks in advance for any hints
Lutz
PD: i was just arranging my data into different categories so could later burn a backup when this happened
g4 AGP 400 MHz Mac OS X (10.3.9) 768 MB SDRAM

Yep, you sure can. That's how I support my family's computers. I just entered their dynamic hostname in ARD, and it always updates their IP address in the ARD list should they have changed.

Windows and firewire audio interfaces

I have a new MBP I'm getting set up with windows, and everything has gone fine but I'm stuck trying to get my Presonus Firebox audio interface to work. I've been poking around and it seems to be a pretty wide spread problem, so I thought I would consolidate some information and hopefully get a few recommendations.
My basic problem is that the Firebox seems to install fine, but is not useable by any application (ASIO reports the error "No sound device is connected to the PC." when selecting the Firebox). I've done the usual tests, and the device works fine in OS X, in Windows on different computers, etc. Only issue is in Windows running under boot camp.
The problem doesn't seem confined to a specific windows version (personally tried XP SP2 and SP3, seen reports of Vista).
The problem doesn't seem confined to a specific audio interface. In addition to my Firebox, I've seen reports for
Edirol FA-101
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1528317&tstart=0
Presonus Firestudio
M-Audio ProFire 26
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7254908&#7254908
Tascam Fw1082
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7274776&#7274776
The problem does not seem to be about the firewire chipset (I've seen reports of problems with some chipsets, but my MBP is several days old with the TI chipset, which as far as I know has no known problems).
The primary app I use that's critical needs ASIO drivers, so I installed ASIO4ALL and that works fine -- it's not a long-term solution, but I can run with it for a little while. Right now I'm primarily interested in understanding what the variables are, i.e., are there any interfaces known to work with my config of hardware, or is there anyone using my config that's running one of these 'problem' interfaces without problems? I've got the 15" MBP at 2.6, with 4 GB of main memory and 512 MB of video.
thanks much,
eric

Also please have some sympathy for the Apple programmers.
This has been an extremely frustrating experience, and it's started me off on the mac platform feeling pretty negatively toward apple. I get that boot camp is a collision of independent companies where no one really has full responsibility, and I don't fault apple for bad drivers (including some REALLY bad drivers, like the broadcom wireless, which I think is dubious to even claim that it works). I have two basic issues with apple: I wish they would have acknowledged the existing problems on the front page of the support, and provided links (making sure everyone knows up front you should try turning off wireless would resolve a number of complaints here). Also, for us laptop users, I have issues with being dependent on apple for drivers (i.e. for the nvidia card). Not knowing if a problem is fixed by a recent driver, and not having access to that driver, is very frustrating. There's the same problem with PC vendors, but at least they have market pressure to keep drivers up to date; Apple has a monopoly on machines that run OS X.
How do you like that Tascam unit?
Now that I've had it a little while, I'm very impressed. What I don't like:
* The largish form factor and ridiculous big knob and buttons that I find worthless.
What I'm ambivalent on:
* The sound quality -- at first I thought it wasn't very good, but I suspect I was being subtly influenced by the fact that I think it's hideously ugly. Now, with it at home and integrated, it sounds pretty good, the output at least is approaching the firebox/828mkII range. Don't know about the preamps, that's hard to say without A/Bing but they are at least decent. Overall I have no complaints at all with the sound quality, certainly not enough for me to pull out another device and really try and compare.
What I like:
* The drivers are multiclient, letting multiple audio apps run simultaneously -- not sure how common that is, half the interfaces I've owned can do that and half can't.
* Fully bus-powered. The firebox has a problem where, on the new MBP, you need to have the power supply plugged in when first starting up; it's nice to not deal with that.
* And then a couple small things that are obvious from the pictures: The knobs are reasonably spaced (the firebox and some motu's are way too close together); dual headphone jacks is nice; independent volume and gain controls on everything is nice (my old 828mkII had a single encoder for both volume and main outs, which drove me nuts).
Overall, for the price you can get them at now (US$135), I think it's a really, really good deal.

USB 1.1 and FireWire only...

I've got the first version of the 12" aluminum that came out...867 G4 with 2 USB 1.1 ports and 1 FW port. Since Apple discontinued support of FireWire with all the iPods, is there a workaround to connecting one of the newer (4th gen to present) iPods to my PowerBook, or do I need to get a new MacBook?
Thanks,
John

It's manageable, I have friend who loaded about 50GB in 12h. Fortunately you only have to do that once . As long as you don't add new stuff too often, you can live with it.

10.5.6 and firewire (DV)

Hello, (i'm french, please excuse my "english")
I've got a JVC DV cam and a macbook. I know that my camera is compatible, that my firewire link is new, and when I plug the whole thing to my macbook, impossible to import from imovie (I can only see my isight).
So, I have a look on system information, (firewire), and I also can't see my JVC. I know that my *firewire port is not burned* (cause I can use a firewire DVD writer whthout any pb). I already used my JVC with that macbook (not with that version of imovie, but the pb seems not to come from imovie), and under leopard (but not this version, probably). *In fact, I'm sure it comes from the system update.*
What I've already tried :
- keep out the battery 5 minutes
- change the order of boot (JVC and macbook) (but I've always plugged my firewire disks and so on with my mac on, without any pb)
- repair the authorizations
It's silly, cause I already ask for it a year ago (with 10.5.2, I think), found the good answer, but I can't remeber where and what it was...
Bonjour,
J'ai une caméra DV JVC et un macbook. Je sais que ma caméra est compatible, que mon cable est neuf, et quand je branche le tout à mon macbook, impossible d'importer depuis iovie où je ne vois que mon isight disponible. Du coup, je vais sur info système et dans firewire, je ne vois pas ma caméra. Je sais que le port firewire n'est pas cramé puisque je peux brancher mon graveur DVD sans problème dessus. Ma caméra a déja fonctionné avec une version précédente d'imovie '(mais le pb semble être en amont) et sous léopard (mais probablement dans une version antérieure).
Ce que j'ai déjà fait :
-virer la batterie du portable 5 minutes et appuyer 5 secondes sur le bouton d'alim'
- changer l'odre de démarrage du camescope et de l'ordi (mais il me semblait que le firewire se branchait à chaud et jusque là, c'est ce que je faisais sans pb)
- réparer les autorisations
Ca m'énerve parce que j'ai déjà posé cette question et j'avais trouvé la réponse mais je ne sais plus où...
Si vous pouviez m'aider

Re: 10.5.6 and firewire (DV)
Posted: Mar 24, 2009 8:33 AM in response to: estragon07
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Welcome to  Discussions, estragon07
Firewire works fine with my 10.5.6.
Do you set your camera to the "VCR" mode and have it plugged into electric power while trying ?
If your problem persists although you use the EXACT process that worked previously, try this:
• Download http://support.apple.com/downloads/MacOS_X_10_5_6_ComboUpdate
but do not install it yet.
• Disconnect all Firewire devices and restart your Mac done
• Repair permissions done
• Apply the 10.5.6 Combo Updater done
• Immediately after the restart that finishes the update, repair permissions again done
• Connect your JVC and test to see if the problem is solved *done, no change, my JVC does neither appear in info system and of course neither in imovie or other softwares like skype, quicktime...*
• If so, reconnect your other Firewire devices (if any) and test again *done, and no problem, my other FW device, a HD for exemple, appears in info system and mounts*
• If the problem returns when you have more than one FW device connected
but works properly when it is the only FW device connected to your Mac,
you may need to keep the others disconnected while downloading from JVC. *I've only one FW device connected (directly) on my macbook at the same time.*
I*t still does not work*

Airport and firewire drive

A few days ago the airport signal is grayed out when I am running from my firewire drive. I tryed a different firewire drive and it was the same. Next I tryed a different Powerbook with both drives and it too was the same, grayed out in the menubar. When running from the internal drive on both Powerbooks it works fine. I have also used several different firewire cables. Any ideas as to what is happening?

Printah,
Welcome to discussions.
So are you telling us that you have a version of OSX 10.4 installed on a couple of firewire drives ? And that you sometimes boot from these drives (holding down F at startup) ?
Does the version of OSX installed on the firewire drive include the AirPort software ?
And if it does, does it have it enabled in the Network system preference ?
And if it is, is it used ? ie. Do you still use Ethernet first, if it can establish a network connection ?
And if AirPort is used and preferred, does it have a preferred network to join ?
And if it does, have you retained the password in your Keychain (on that installation of OSX, not the one on your internal drive) ?

"firewire support" and "firewire enabler"

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