Tobermory Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 Hi, I am new to getting OSX working on a PC but have managed to successfully follow instructions and have a working intall of Jas 10.4.8 which I have upgraded to 10.4.9. on a Asus P5LD2-VM board. I have added the sound drivers and these are working great. The only issue I have is with the generic add-on firewire card I have. My LaCie Big DIsk isn't recognised when I connect it and I have noticed an error apperaing every 5 seconds or so in system.log: FireWire GUID 0000000000000000 is invalid! Can anyone suggest how I can fix this? Many Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tobermory Posted April 23, 2007 Author Share Posted April 23, 2007 I have now found out that this error is referring to the mac address of the firewire card. Is there a way if changing this? Anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timmyj Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 i have the same problem, but my GUID is fffffffffff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 get a proper card, not a cheap ass one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tobermory Posted April 25, 2007 Author Share Posted April 25, 2007 Thanks Kiko, so helpful! Maybe you could suggest one that is Mac and PC compatible that will work on Hackintosh or maybe as all you can contribute are usless comments. Up to you if you want to prove me wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsc106 Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 I have this problem as well, except I did not used to. My onboard firewire worked fine in Leopard, but I now get this error in Tiger. Any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reveeen Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 A firewire port is a primary type device. It wants to be installed in such a way as not to share an IRQ. Unless the driver(s) concerned are carefully written to allow IRQ sharing, and the add-in card's latency isn't a lot different to the device you are forcing the share with, you are SOL (you are not getting any "shared" time on the PCI buss). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6apxat Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 so how can this be fixed? i can't even boot from dvd because of this error Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsc106 Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 A firewire port is a primary type device. It wants to be installed in such a way as not to share an IRQ. Unless the driver(s) concerned are carefully written to allow IRQ sharing, and the add-in card's latency isn't a lot different to the device you are forcing the share with, you are SOL (you are not getting any "shared" time on the PCI buss). well it worked before, so it should work again... I second the question... any way this can be fixed? The copying of KEXTs above didn't work for me Would an add-in card fix this? I'm using onboard... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reveeen Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 Before giving up: 1)If the port is on a card I would try moving the card to another slot. 2)If on-board, in your board's manual there should be an IRQ map, check (and eliminate, if you can) the share. I too am learning about this, but even within a Windoze enviorment, there are times that a firewire port simply won't "go". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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