Thanks Kelly/Peter/Luis...
...I wasn't aware that the NEC chipset was the preferred one.
The ones I briefly looked at yesterday on Amazon UK seemed to be all
Texas Instruments, which I think is also on my G3's motherboard. I'll
steer clear of those and try your suggestion.
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Neil
On 23/02/2018 21:09, Kelly Harding wrote:
I found the best results were with NEC chipped FireWire cards.
On 23/02/2018 22:31, [email protected] wrote:
>> Best results with various other cards were found with NEC chips as well.
>
> The NEC chipset, now renamed Renesas, is the most compatible of
several competitive chipsets.
On 23/02/2018 21:36, 'Luis Salazar' via G-Group wrote:
>
> I use a USB and Firewire card combo from IOGEAR, that I absolutely
love, in all my PowerMacs. I did find that deep sleep issues would arise
from time to time if the driver was not installed. These cards are
inexpensive on eBay. The card in question is:
>
> https://www.iogear.com/product/GUF320
>
> Best results with various other cards were found with NEC chips as well.
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