evandro altimari Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 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 !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hascosx Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macman7 Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rwillett Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arjunamltd Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schnullimaus Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
headdy Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 If this still actual for you, if you use some PowerManagement disabler kext, then try to remove AppleHPET.kext from S/L/E… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuadOSX Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 Hi everyone,, i have managed to get the VIA based card to sort of work, being that it says under my mac allow all connections and even recognises my sony HVR-Z1E, but under network its not connected, and when trying to capture video in FCP or FCP Excpress it says the HDV deck is not connected etc, been going over this for over a month now and have basically started to give up, i have a gigabyte DS3 board, Iatkos 10.5.8 install which is completely stable apart from this weird problem with the firewire card. Firewire works under WIN 7, have tried 2 different cards aswell , one VIA and the other by Pinnacle with a TI chipset, but to no avail. Sorry to jump on the post but im hoping someone has had this issue already and solved it, as i can't find anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifeofdave Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 Same as some people above. Bought a £4 off ebay and found it only works in some PCI slots. Still at least it works! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muchlife Posted April 23, 2010 Share Posted April 23, 2010 have the same firewire PCI card with VIA chip i bought for $10 free shipping and it works natively in 10.5.6 retail/vanilla but only in a certain PCI slot (bottom, furthest from CPU on Gigabyte EP45-UD3P) its 3 port / 1 internal card - 3 x 6-Pin/ 1 x 4-Pin, shows up perfectly in system profiler so try to remove it and insert in the other PCI slot. if you have something already in the other PCI slot, then swap them and see if that works Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danny nguyen Posted April 26, 2010 Share Posted April 26, 2010 i justa cheap firewire card from old computer and on it have something like VIA.so it VIA chip set ?do i need to get driver to it to work ? or it just plug in the right slot ?i runing ipc 10.5.6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muchlife Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 i justa cheap firewire card from old computer and on it have something like VIA.so it VIA chip set ?do i need to get driver to it to work ? or it just plug in the right slot ?i runing ipc 10.5.6 it depends WHICH VIA chipset you have on the card. there should be a 3-4 digit number next to VIA somewhere on the card (usually on the black chip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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