On Saturday, December 28, 2002, at 03:14 PM, Eric J. Leopold wrote: > Sadly enough, there were more than 160 posts on the Apple forum about > bad FireWire on Mac B&W G3. Apple did nothing to solve the problem. > The solution is as Albert suggests (my solution too). HTH. >
Some more info from an XLR8 your mac post: ******************************************************* Another B&W G3 Owner Notes PCI Firewire Card Solves Problems: " Hello, I just wanted to give you some info on a problem I found. I own a B&W G3 rev 1 with a G4/500 upgrade card. I was having a problem with the firewire ports and a firewire CDRW. To fix the problem I bought an ADS case to replace the original QPS (their support stinks), which did fix the problem of the drive not being able to burn. Over the weekend I purchased an iPod (great little device) but as I was transferring about 500MB of songs to it iTunes would cause a kernal panic. At that point I remembered your comments about B&W G3 firewire controller issues and wondered if this may be the same. This time I decided to forgo the the internal controllers all together and buy a PCI card. I purchased the Adaptec 4300 and plugged my now working CDRW and the iPod in. I just finished transferring over 1GB of songs to the iPod and burning a number of CDs without incident. I know the ADS fixed my original problem with the CDRW case but the new card also sped the burning process. I don't have any hard numbers but it certainly is faster. Keep up the good work, without this site I would pull what is left of my hair out in no time. Julian" ************************************************************* Albert B&W Yosemite // XLR8 G4 500/ 1MB ZIF // 1024MB RAM OS X.2.3 Albert B&W Yosemite // XLR8 G4 500/ 1MB ZIF // 1024MB RAM OS X.2.3 -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
