thanks very much for your very helpful info. I'll check out those sites you listed -- sounds like the Belkin may be the way to go. I agree, their Mac support is excellent. I've been using one of the Belkin Bus Station USB hubs for the last 5 years and it works great! Until I can afford a new and shiny G5 (not any time soon!), I plan to stick with 9.2.2 on this machine so hopefully that will minimize the potential support issues.
thanks again -- muchly appreciated! Sue Street
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Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 16:07:36 -0800 Subject: Re: FW cards for B&W From: Wade Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sue, I have had great luck with Belkin PCI cards. They are usually a little bit higher in price, but their Mac support (drivers, updates, etc ) is very good. Also Sonnet and Adaptec are good Mac supporters. The only issues I have seen on the B&W with PCI cards is when you are loading a new install of OS X . My daughters B&W would not load OS 10.3 with any PCI card installed other than the video card. You are running 9.2, so you should not have any issues. Keep that thought in mind when you go to load OS X. And you should load OS X if you can, it runs great in the B&W, and once you get used to it you won't go back to 9. Matter of fact I recently bought used B&W to replace their Beige boxes, because I could not keep the off of my G4 running X.
Anyway, there are a number of options, most between $40.00 and $80.00 usd. Here is a couple of links for Belkin and others.
http://www.welovemacs.com/adapters-firewire-adapters.html (about 8 cards on this page, including the new Sonnet 800 mbps)
http://www.nextag.com/buyer/outpdir.jsp?nxtg=332480_04B72613814F455A&doSearc h=y&search=pci+firewire+mac ( about 15 different models)
http://www.orangemicro.com/fwpci.html
http://firewire.adaptec.com/
http://www.adstech.com/products/API_810/intro/API810_intro.asp?pid=API_810
Good Luck and Good Shopping,
Wade Perry
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