suicida1.nun Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 Hey all, I have a CoolerMaster 690 and a Gigabyte EP35C-DS3R and I just found out that my mobo does not have an internal firewire plug. That means my firewire plug on top of the case is basically no good. So I am looking at a firewire card and was wondering how compatible a PCI-Express Firewire card would be with Leopard OSx86? There's nothing on the wiki about it. I have two choices: PCI-Express and PCI PCI-E: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16812186009 PCI: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16815124003 What is the main difference between the two cards? I know that PCI-Express is faster but both cards boast the same 400/200/100 mbps speed. Also it seems that both cards do not have the necessary pins so I can plug in my internal firewire plug. I would like to be able to use the firewire port on top of my case. Thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 ive tried two PCI firewire cards in my hacky and both 'just worked'. i suspect you'll be ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacUser2525 Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 ive tried two PCI firewire cards in my hacky and both 'just worked'. i suspect you'll be ok. Plus if you read the PCI review one person says it works with a Mac. Personally I have a dynex brand 3 port with Augere L-FW323-6 chipset on it that works perfectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
achyutanand Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 Plus if you read the PCI review one person says it works with a Mac. Personally I have a dynex brand 3 port with Augere L-FW323-6 chipset on it that works perfectly. hay just installed FCP istallation went fine but when i start FCP it does not start it just stops in the middle saying UNABLE TO LOCATE FOLLOWING EXTERNAL DEVICES: APPLEFIREWIRE NTSC (1024*756) I don't have a on board firewire port but have a firewire card called ADS PYRO 1394DV Cardbus drivers available for this model does not workon leopard its for classic environment so i have installed latest drivers and in the system profiler it does show in firewire MAXIMUM SPEED 400 MB/SEC. I think it has take the drivers thought there are no other details besides this i don't know wot could be the problem can any think of any thing i really need to get this working any any 1 help me please? thanks a million. OS: HAkintisoh kalway Leopard 10.5.1 CPU: Dual-core 3 GHz Motherboard: ASUS P5GC-MX/1333 Video graphics: Palit geforce 8600gt (working) Memory:2GB DDR2 sound: onboard (working) HD: 80 GB IDE (Leo), 160GB SATA Onboard LAN:not workling as if now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voggorb Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 achyutanand, i think it just means that you don't have a camera connected to your firewire port Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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