I'm interested in building a hackintosh for the price/power.
I've built pc's before and modified xboxes.This seems interesting.
I'm still very new to the mac scene.I own a intel imac.2gb max ram though.
The problem=
I still can't find anyone with a m-audio firewire device on osx86.
I own the Ozonic and need to be able to use this on the new system.
I need to choose a mobo with 1394 and must be 45nm ready.
Most importantly must be stable.
I plan on using Reason 4, Protools M-Powered and maybe Logic 8.
Any suggestions or input on
using firewire interfaces with osx86???

I responded to your other post as well. My firewire works fine on both of my machines (see specs below). I have an Ozonic and a Mackie 16 channel Onyx/firewire mixer. Although I have not recorded with either of them, out put has been without issue. I added a firewire card to my desktop and it was one that was listed on the Digidesign website as being compatible. I am not at my desktop now, but I am pretty sure it is a Siig PCI 400. It has 3 ports on it and all three work fine and I had to do no moding to get them to work. I also hook my two firewire external hard drives to those ports and they seem to not have a problem. Sorry no info about recording, but I am pretty sure if you can put together a machine with decent compatible hardware, you would be fine.

Hi,

i use MOTO828 with no problems.
10.4.10. Logic 8

Greets,
Rubel

Eff Protools.

(Go to Logic)

i've used to firewire based cards in OSX86 - a Behringer FCA 202 and a Digidesign Mbox 2 Pro - they act as if they were running on a real mac, so you won't have any trouble providing the device has drivers for OSX

i have an mlan network which i will try.

i currently have tried a UA-5 works perfectly.
and access virus ti - works in finder and itunes, vlc etc but in logic but my core audioi≈l messes up. i tried a lot of patches trying to get onboard audio working. i'll reinstall the toh ones and try virus control again.

I use a Presonus Firebox that works great in OS X with Logic 8 Studio. Its small and portable so its perfect for me in that I can use it on my desktop at home or take it on the road with my laptop, the Firepod is probably a better value if portability is not a concern for you.

Thanks everyone! I really do appreciate the input.I think I'm ready to make the jump.
I currently have a imac 17" 2.0ghz cd2 with 1gb ram.Its limited to 2gb so thats why I plan on
upgrading.I will fund this buy selling my imac.
Is there any issue with having 4gbs of ram in osx or xp?

motu 828mk2 firewire

logic studio 8

ga-965p-dq6 EE6600

leopard toh 10.5.0 with last toh kernel

The Focusrite Saffire LE works.

Presonus Firepod (converted to FP10) works!
..only with a texas instrument chipset! (VIA 6306 gave the red light of doom..)

specs:
gb965p-s3 - c2d 4300 - Leo TohRC2 - efi v8

When I ran a hackintosh I used both a tasam fw1884 and a mackie onyx satelite without issues using and audigy card as the firewire interface. Worked well. I have a real mac now though.

My M-AUDIO FireWire Audiophile works great with 10.4.10 and Logic Studio 8.

I have your firewire card but sometime it crashed! It also have terrible bug :logic cpu meter go over when CPU go 50%., and Idle 50%.

Installed on :10.4.9 r3 upHuck,
Mobo: p4c800
CPU: pentium4, 3Ghz, Hyper Threading tecnology Northwood compatible SSE2
1Mb ram
video card: 5200Fx

YOU what system do U have?

i use a motu 828mk2 too ( with a presonus firestation adat module )

worked like a charm on 10.4.8 JaS & now on Leo ToH , i can record 18 input at the same time (24bit) + a lot of vsti s & effects running

i use ableton mostly though i v done some tests on logic & everything seems to work fine

my system is an intel coreduo2 EE6600 with a gigabyte GA965P-DQ6, 2GB DRR2 PC6400 STT, MSI geforce 7600 GS

i had many pb with those upHuck dvd s have u tried with a JaS s one ?

I've tried jas 10.4.8 before installing uphuck 10.4.9 but the I've the same problem on logic, cpu goes 50% then logic cpu meter goes over,
I I never hear Leo ToH version, you mean 10.5 ???

I have also a jas you mean that I can solve my problem upgrating to 10.4.10?

thanks

If you're doing mostly Software based production and have no other outboard gear I can recommend the FA-66. After spending ages looking for drivers for it on the OSX platform I gave up and just plugged it in. Works out of the box, on 10.4.9 anyway No problems with any audio apps that i've tried. Reason, Logic 8, Logic 7.2

RME FireFace 800 works like charm. On Leopard 10.5 too.

M-Audio ProjectMix I/O works flawlessly on Leopard 10.5.1. I'm using Logic 8.0.1, and everything runs on a hacky

Had problems with my Alesis io/14 until a friend recomended i change my pci firewire card to a belkin.

All works perfectly on 10.5.1

I run a Presonus firebox. I can run Logic 8.0.1 as my instrument while tweaking effects while simultaneously running garage band for recording from logic. I also can run reason. All in 10.5.1. No problems.

Hi,

I’ve got a hiccup problem with my Presonus FirePod (via firewire). For a quarter of a second my sound drops out in Logic Express 8.0.1 and iTunes. I haven’t tried it in Garage Band yet. I’ve tried isolating the issue and it seems to be 10.5.x, hackintosh and a firewire problem. I can play back a project / music / sound fine from an iMic and from internal sound but when I use the firewire/FirePod the dropout is there. It is an irregular drop out, might be 30 seconds to an hour between dropouts.

I’ve tried on 2 hackintoshes (specs in sig) and my G4 duel 1gig. The hackies both hiccup, the G4 doesn’t. Also 10.4.9 works fine on the hackies but 10.5.2 and 10.5.3 doesn’t. Fortunately, I kept a 10.4.9 HD on both hackies so I’m still up and running but... it would sure be nice to figure out this problem.

Also, I just tried a firewire camera on one of the hackies with 10.5.3 and it worked fine. Seems to be just the FirePod (or core audio or....)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Khan

I can't get my 002 to work... is there a way to tell if it's working besides running Pro Tools? Somewhere you can see if it's popping up?

edirol fa-66 fw soundcard works really well in logic 8 and ableton.

hello i have a asus g1s ak092c with a hackintosh kalyway 10.5.2 leopar and a dual boot with xp with logic 8 and final cut installed and thats great
for the moment my prjectmix io m audio is not recognized in 10.5.2 but there are some kernel for 10.5.3 for intel on the m audio networkdriver so i hope i ll found pilotes for 10.5.2 or a combo update witch work
i tell you before
but some friend have the same configuration on macbook and logic reason and final cut seems t obe better one asus g1s so if you forget the work to do for installing logic 8 on a g1s its better but if you want a proper solution you will need 1000 euro more to get a real macbook pro
looooool
bye

Lots of trouble getting a focusrite saffire running on Leopard with my setup, you can read the solution here:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry883420

After the fuss, I can say it records/sounds awesome and works perfectly in Logic 8.0.2.

Kalyway 10.5.2
Logic Studio 8
Motu 828 MK2 (Firewire)

Kalyway 10.5.2, Digital Performer 6 or 5.13 and Logic 8 with an Echo Audiofire 12... no problems so far.

Bah!
I can't get my Ozonic working with onboard VT6306 Fire II IEEE 1394 on an Asus P5KC...
Any idea?

Shuttle SG31xxx.

1394 is builtin, and works.

I've used it to transfer data from my Fuji Finepix Pro S2 12 MP digicam (has 1394 or USB as options), and it works well.

I would expect the same from other 1394 devices, especially HD videocams with 1394.

Shuttles are SFF (Small Form Factor/Shuttle Form Factor) X86 boxes and the G31/ICH7 versions are especially MacOS X86 compatible.

Downside: these are not particularly overclockable, although reasonable overclocking is possible, but nowhere near as good as with a Gigabyte P35 mobo.

So-called "Pentium Dual Core", but really Core 2, processors (E2200, 2.2 GHz, for example) work well. The much less expensive E1200 (1.8 Ghz), and also Core 2, is also an option.

I found my Q6600 and an E8500 were largely wasted in Shuttles, so I move these processors to Gigabyte P35/ICH9 mobos.