FireWire Card Compatability? |
May, 11, 2003 10:07 AM |
dsoumas |
Hi folks, I'm running a 9600/G4-350 MHz with my slots filled. In one of these slots, I've a generic FireWire 3-port card that I got with my scanner. Although it did not expressly come with Mac drivers (and might have even mentioned PC only compatibility), I decided "what the heck" and tried it in my Beige G3/233. It worked like a champ without any extra drivers necessary. I ran my scanner, burners, etc. So, I'm importing the card to the 9600 beast. It's a Texas Instruments chipset. The chipboard is silk-screened with 1394U VER 1.0. There are two chips labeled 05AR7NJ TSB12LV23 F711958A and 06D257T TSB41LV03A. It has two jumper blocks labelled JP1 and JP2. Based on the pages I've found online, they refer to this chipset as the TSB12LV23/TSB41LV03A chipset. Here's a shot of the thing, if that helps:
![](http://store6.yimg.com/I/cooldrives_1727_400181) Anywho... Ryan had mentioned the FireWire GUID of 0x0:0x0 that is displayed at startup was a little odd, and I thought I might mention that here. The symptoms I'm getting almost resemble a SCSI termination problem whereas a large file transfer could be taking place and then, poof, your machine is locked up and you need to cold reboot. Has anyone had any luck using one of these in an older machine? Does anyone recommend a better slot to put it in? I'm using slot D2 with the lock ups. I'm going to try B1 next (and I'll let you know if it does anything better). I've never learned if there's anything to the order you install these cards on a PM 9600, but I'm open to ideas. Thanks everyone in advance. - Dave |
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RE: FireWire Card Compatability? |
June, 17, 2003 3:02 PM |
nhr |
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this is what I was told by a techsupport after I could not copy large files onto disk on a Miles Initio SCISI card: All bus-master cards, I/O cards, must be in slot 1 - 3 as there is a timing problem in the slots 4-6 on all 6 slot PCI macs. Bus-slave cards work fine in slots 4 - 6. In other words, SCISI cards, FireWire Cards, etc must go into slots 1 - 3, and ethernet cards, video cards, etc. better be put into slots 4 - 6. Don't understand bus-master/slave-master but it fixed my problem. Nick |
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RE: FireWire Card Compatability? |
May, 16, 2003 4:18 PM |
marcush |
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The Ratoc Firewire/USB2.0 card works perfectly in OSX. The only problem I have had with it is putting it in the 5th slot. I have it in slot 2 of my Power Tower Pro and it never gives me any trouble. |
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RE: FireWire Card Compatability? |
May, 16, 2003 2:39 AM |
paul_findley |
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I've said it before and I'll say it again, firewire was/is not ready for prime time, at least for hard disks. I have had lockups on large file transfers with three different brands of cards in old world macs, and now even on a brand new emac's built in firewire! www.bombich.com even has a disclaimer that it isn't his fault if carbon copy cloner hangs during a long cloning session to a firewire disk. |
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RE: FireWire Card Compatability? |
May, 12, 2003 12:49 PM |
gchron |
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There were some Processor up[date cards that had problems with the lower 3 PCI slots of 9500/9600 machines. Do you have one of these?? |
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B1 Works Great |
May, 12, 2003 6:17 AM |
dsoumas |
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Okay, now I'm back to swapping cards around for maximum performance. I placed the FireWire card in slot B1, and it works perfectly. This may lead me to troubleshooting the USB card I couldn't get to work previously. Does anyone have a clue what is going on with the 9600 PCI Bus that might require a specific order for certain types of cards? Thanks! - Dave |
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