FW 800 and PCIe firwire card/ It works

Short story I could not get my external FW800 WD my book to work on the Mac pro system. i just installed a Sunix which I am betting the same as the Aaxeon card orderd from OWC 1 AAXFWB3414 Aaxeon FireWire 400/800 4 Port PCI Express Controller Card $107.99
Well i installed it and my My book is now working and my other 400 My book going through the PCI card. Which now free's up the system firewire bus except for the Cinema display and now the front 400 and 800 are working. Honestly i believe there is a under powered firewire bus issue on these. Now there has been talk of a speed issue with these, maybe there is have not tested that but just happy everything is working as it should
Well just copyied the same folder to the 800 aand than to the 400 and the 800 is faster. Thought I would pass this on to Firewire issues some folks are having

They do have there own AC power yes . there 500gb WD 7200 16mb cache IDE drives i believe. yes i would like to test the speed on these just to see if it is going full bore or not. They seem very fast. I have had just to much trouble with the Mac Pro bus speed or something was off just not sure.
On a side note . i ordered Techtool Pro and my main drive had 454 fragmented files and i did optimize the whole system and ran drive tests before i installed the card. Everything seems to be working very well now. Fingers crossed

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Happy Holidays!
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In my opinion, the SeriTek 2ME4-E-4 design emphasis was probably geared more toward use in a Mac Pro with 10.5 and above. After two system formats, and the failure of two different FirmTek PCIe cards, that was enough for me.
Final success came with; http://eshop.macsales.com/item/DAT+Optic/ESATAPCIE21B/ (and) http://eshop.macsales.com/item/DAT%20Optic/ESATAPCIE8/
One BIG advantage with DAT Optic are the numerous readily available drivers directly from the Silicon Image web site. And their tech support is first class.
All of this is good news for users of older Power Mac G5's.
Enjoy!
Mike

Hi Chris
Whatever the situation was with 10.4.10, or 10.4.11, I had to conclude that FirmTek's drivers were not doing the job for 10.4.11 - The condescending technician was basically ignoring my remark that this card just doesn't work with my set up. Neither could their 2 port card work.
I had to argue my point repeatedly, (shouldn't have to do that).
In any event, I'm rolling pretty good with these 2 bay OWC clearance eSATA enclosures, (got 4 of them). No bridge, just good ole eSATA connections. Sure took long enough to get to this place.
Happy Holidays
Mike

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Is there example code for using Ni488 and PCI-GPIB card in non controller mode?

cymrieg,
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