macmaniac Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Please read carefully. I have a P5K-E WIFI (EFIv8 Vanilla Leopard 10.5.1) motherboard with built-in firewire 400. It works great. I have a SIIG firewire 800 PCIe card that works great, or so I thought. System profiler reports it correctly, and any devices connected to it, including hard drives. The iSight camera works when connected to it. However the SIIG card falls short when a firewire drive is attached. I get "device not recognized", and "would you like to initialize". When I hook the drive to the built-in USB or built-in firewire, its fine. If I try to initialize, the formatting either fails, or the disk won't mount. In other words, useless. FWIW, I believe the SIIG card has a Texas Instruments chip. Could this be a driver issue? But my built-in works fine. So I think the card is just plain incompatible with Vanilla Leopard. Anybody know a fix, or recommend a PCI or PCIe card that works with a firewire hard drive. I don't trust system profiler any more, and neither should you, so please, only report known, working solutions that you have personally tested with a real hard drive. Belkin? Sonnet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodl Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 check out aqua_mac's hackpro, he has one that works http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=77569 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmes Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 your firewire should "just work", hopefully you can return it and try the Koutech IO-PEFW331: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16815201014 i had this one that worked fine, but returned as it doesn't have a powered bus: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16815124050 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleted_account Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 Does anyone know if this would work? Or any reason it should not? This PCI should be fine and recognized right? Belking 3-Port Firewire 800 (1394b) PCI Card http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage...oduct_Id=196216 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleted_account Posted February 29, 2008 Share Posted February 29, 2008 Just to confirm PCI cards can work in OSx86 right? It does not have to all be PCIe like Mac Pros? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleted_account Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 Does anyone know if this would work? Or any reason it should not? This PCI should be fine and recognized right? Belking 3-Port Firewire 800 (1394b) PCI Card http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage...oduct_Id=196216 Will this PCI card work with OSx86? (not PCI-Express like for Mac Pros) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meansizzler Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 Just to confirm PCI cards can work in OSx86 right? It does not have to all be PCIe like Mac Pros? There is a certain VIA Firewire chip which works natively the cheapo USB2/Firewire cards have it, the USB part does not work but the firewire does, have a usb/firewire card with that chipset, 2 external firewire ports, well one of them seems to be fully working as plugged in a Firewire DVDRW and works great... will get back to you withthe exact chip... it was a PCI card by the way... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleted_account Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 There is a certain VIA Firewire chip which works natively the cheapo USB2/Firewire cards have it, the USB part does not work but the firewire does, have a usb/firewire card with that chipset, 2 external firewire ports, well one of them seems to be fully working as plugged in a Firewire DVDRW and works great... will get back to you withthe exact chip... it was a PCI card by the way... Thanks, I appreciate you sharing this bit of information, I look forward to seeing that specific chipset, I hope the above belkin works though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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