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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?

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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

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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

 

belkin3302td7.jpg

 

http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage...oduct_Id=196216

 

 

Will this PCI card work with OSx86? (not PCI-Express like for Mac Pros)

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...

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.

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