VIA VT6306 Firewire card

I've just installed a PCI USB2.0/Firewire card (specified on the box as being Mac OS X compatible) into my G4 dual 1GHz MDD . It runs the VIA VT6306 chip. I installed the drivers and the USB ports work perfectly, but the FW ones don't. Apparently they're supposed to run using the native Apple FW drivers, and indeed System Profiler shows the PCI card as being installed with 3 USB buses and one FW400 bus. But none of my peripherals (DV camera, iPod, scanner, hard drive or audio interface) will work using these ports. They are currently all hooked up via a hub to one of the on-board FW ports, as the other one has failed, hence the purchase of the new PCI card.
I've searched the web for information, but apart from someone else with the same problem, there's no fix given. Can anyone help?
Regards,
GJB
G4 MDD dual 1GHz Mac OS X (10.4.6) Added 180GB ATA, Plextor CD-R drive, LaCie FW 250GB
G4 MDD dual 1GHz Mac OS X (10.4.6) 1.25GB RAM, 80 + 180GB ATA, Plextor CD-R drive, LaCie FW 250GB
G4 MDD dual 1GHz Mac OS X (10.4.6) Added 180GB ATA, Plextor CD-R drive, LaCie FW 250GB

HI, jumie. What you propose may work fine. Go ahead and clone your internal drive to an external drive, then give your plan a try. In the worst case, the computer will simply ignore the external drive and boot to the internal drive instead. No harm will be done.
Or could I just boot the computer with an external HD using the TiBook's own FireWire port and then run the audio through the PCMCIA-slot via FireWire?
This is a pretty safe bet. It's certainly possible to boot a Tibook to an external FW drive connected through the built-in FW port, unless you're unlucky enough to have bought a non-bootable external drive enclosure (there still are some). In that case you'll probably want to buy a different enclosure for your external drive — making sure the new enclosure uses an Oxford 911 FireWire bridge, which will ensure that it's bootable.
Assuming your drive is bootable, the next question will be whether your audio hardware runs OK through the PC-card FW adapter. If it does, you should be set.
It is not possible to boot any Mac running OS 9 or OS X from any USB device. So don't bother to try booting from a USB drive, or from a combination FW & USB drive through a USB connection.

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Hi,
Without wanting to just throw links at you, have a look at this KB and try the suggestion; otherwise post back!
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Thanks for the patience on this question. I just purchased a dual core powermac for final cut studio apps. Was told that gettting an external firewire 800 HD would suffice for capturing, that it could be connected directly to the firewire 800 port. But, elsewhere I was cautioned to get a firewire card to avoid single bus issues. Question: Do I really need a firewire card? If so, what is a single bus issue?
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Hi!
you could run into a slowdown due to the single bus
having to share both devices.
So, is this where dropped frames occur?
Yes, it's one area. Another is too many processes going on (say, formatting a disk, burning a DVD, playing music, and compiling a program at the same time -- while you're trying to import video
It depends on what kind of device -- and what kind of video -- you're importing; I very seldom have a problem with dropped frames on my dual-core.
In your case, why wouldn't it be better just to
capture with your built-in Firewire? I may be
confused, so correct me if so, but then it seems you
are not getting the benefits of a Firewire card?
That is, if the issue is a slowdown, which you seem
to be experiencing already.
Not necessarily. I'm still getting about 2/3 of the speed of FW800, which is faster transfer rates than FW400 (the larger FireWire connector). And I imported video using FW400 for years.
And of course having two separate FireWire busses -- even if one is operating at only 2/3 speed -- is still a lot more bandwidth than one bus alone.
Look at it this way: I can import from my camera at 2/3 maximum FireWire 800 speed on my expansion card's FW800 port, and simultaneously write the data to disk (around that same throughput) to my hard drive via the built-in FW800 port.
If I didn't have the card, I'd be doing well to get one-half FW800 speeds -- and actually, on a single bus, it would be lower than that.
And now we get to the primary reason I got the internal card: I do a lot of hot-plugging, since we back up to semi-portable hard disks each night. If I'm going to blow a FireWire port because of a bad cable -- or the FireWire gods should otherwise frown on me -- I'd rather blow a port on a $90 card than take down the FireWire on my shiny new G5.
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hii there!
first let mi make you understand what we people are doing ....
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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
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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
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