sturzo Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Being a musician and desperately wanting to use my PCI-based devices in my custom-built hackintosh, I would love for someone to break the Mac Pro's chains that bind and allow for PCI-based sound cards to be used natively. Knowing that this is a virtual impossibility, I have had to think a bit outside of the box and consider a few alternatives. In these forums I have read a few success stories regarding usb [and in some cases firewire] sound devices functioning properly under osx86 Leopard, but the only firewire sound device that I own is an Mbox2 Pro which shows no signs of being compatible with Leopard anytime soon. My question is, as ridiculous as it may be, would/could a PCI-e to PCI adapter "trick" the OS into thinking that the device was strickly PCI-e based and had no PCI qualities about it? Please correct me if I'm thinking too far outside the box--desperation can cause strange behavior and I've become officially obsessed with this concept. Please respond. Thanks. Sturzo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest badaxe Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Hi there sturzo, i use a fw-1884 tascam interface and it runs perfectly with logic and digital performer under leopard 10.5.2 . My board is a badaxe2 and a asus p5w dh deluxe using the kalyway disk. Its a little expensive but it runs flawlessly with as many plugins i can throw at it. I also have a lot of external instruments (eloctronic drum kit, sampler etc and all get recognized) My processors are a core2duo e6750 and a quad 6600. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vladthebad Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 piece of freaking cake. Get a Magma PCI expansion chassis, and a PCIe host card. and go get yourself several extra slots while you're at it. Or use a firewire based solution. Or, talk to the maker of the PCI card you need to use, and ask them if they're planning on making a PCIe version, or if they've considered making a PCIe version by just adding a PCIe to PCI bridge chip (like the PLX bridge chips). Maybe they even have a PCIe version already, but its not commercially released yet, and they'd sell you an early release if you asked nicely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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