Hello blza staff? my rackintosh this perfect, not the firewire card
PCI, it connected to the system, so that does not work, when a plug
firewire device it shows, ex? (FireWire Bus:
Maximum Speed: Up to 400 Mb / sec,) while I read, someone has to
solution?

i used

Aipc 10.5.7
Asus pk5-se
Gforce n7200 gs
Core 2 duo 7200



Thanks !!

recommend pci card firewire with chipset : texas intrument

Somehow I got a PCI Firewire Card with this Chip (VT6306) to work in Snow Leopard.
My Hardware:
- GA-EP45-UD3LR
- MSI 9400 GT 512 MB
- Core2Quad Q9550
- Maxxtro PCI Firewire with VT6306 Chip

Installation used:
- http://lifehacker.com/5360150/install-snow...acking-required

Now:
- It didn't work at first, I think I installed some firewire kexts from this forum, but had no luck. I also tried to use the Extra folder from my USB-Installation drive, as it solved some other problems before. I just drag and dropped the Extra folder from the USB to my HD. Still no luck. The Opposite happend, it screwed everything up, so I had to do a Re-Installation with the exact same prepared USB-Stick from the Lifehacker Tutorial + with the PCI-Firewire Card installed

And voilà! It recognized the Card and it works! I use it for my Elgato EyeTV 310 and haven't had a problem since.

I hope this helps somebody with this card, everybody says doesn't work!

I simply plugged the same firewire card in the right slot and it worked. No kext's, no problem. My install is a vanilla Snow Leopard. The firewire didn't work in a different slot but was no effort in the slot next to it. No idea why.

My motherboard is a GIGABYTE GA-G31M-ES2L.

Rob

The problem in my Motherboard is only provide 2 slot PCI, one is for ethernet card, the other for Firewire.

I can confirm the PCI slot dependency with Snow Leo on a Gigabyte
GA P35 DS3 - Board:

I have an el-cheapo combined firewire / usb card, with one VIA chip
for USB and another VIA chip for firewire.

I get SnowLeo to recognize and use the card only in one of the PCI
slots, while the USB ports of that card do work no matter in which PCI
slot I put the card....

I found a similar behaviour with another el-cheapo RealTek Gigabit Network
card. Put it in one slot, I get an IOInterruptSource Error, put it in another
slot it just works.

So I don't know what it is, but there must be a difference between the PCI
slots (though i always thought it is a Bus with all wires connected in parallel
to each slot).
From Windows, I cannot remember having such a slot dependency with PCI cards.

Regards,
Stephan