Anyone get a 3G iPod to work? |
September, 30, 2003 9:44 PM |
tschang |
I'm running 10.2.6 on a 7600 XLR8MACh Carrier G3/300 thanks to XPostFacto. I also have a CompUSA Combo USB/1394 card. USB has worked fine, but I've never had the chance to use the FireWire ports... until now. When I put the 3rd generation 15GB iPod in the cradle, it says "Do not remove" but nothing ever shows up on the Mac side. It doesn't look like it gets mounted, and iTunes never recognizes it. Of course, the iPod manual says it's only for Macs with "built-in FireWire." |
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RE: Anyone get a 3G iPod to work? |
October, 03, 2003 6:24 PM |
marcush |
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Ratoc makes an excellent Firewire/USB2.0 card. That's what I currently have. |
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RE: Anyone get a 3G iPod to work? |
October, 02, 2003 8:27 PM |
demolter |
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Just to chime in, I also have the 15G Ipod with a fire wire card from OWC, (9600 W/Sonnet G4-450 card, Running Jaguar) I reformatted the Ipod and never had a problem with it since. |
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RE: Anyone get a 3G iPod to work? |
October, 02, 2003 10:57 AM |
jseibyl |
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Don't have an iPod to test, but my Macally combo works pretty well also..... |
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RE: Anyone get a 3G iPod to work? |
October, 01, 2003 9:18 PM |
mjoecups358 |
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The Macally combo card I have works great with my 1st gen 5G ipod... Marty |
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RE: Anyone get a 3G iPod to work? |
October, 01, 2003 9:10 PM |
tschang |
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marcush, Yea, after reading the posts on XLR8YourMac a few years ago, I got the "good" one with the Lucent/TI chipset & molex power connector. I never found a cheap "Y" connector to hook it up to the power supply though. Dang. Looks like I need to get a new combo card. Can anyone recommend a combo card that is known to work with a 3rd Generation iPod? (Time to paruse the forum... when's that search engine coming?) |
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RE: Anyone get a 3G iPod to work? |
October, 01, 2003 7:20 PM |
marcush |
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It's the CompUSA card. They sold two versions. One had a molex power connector to draw power straight from power supply. The other version didn't. This one had an NEC firewire chip which did not work at all with Macs. Even the working version, which has a TI Firewire chip does not work that well. I've had both versions and got rid of them. They were cheap but you get what you pay for. |