Thanks for the info. Regarding your OrangeMicro cards, how old are they? In mid
2001 OM made a design change that was supposed to eliminate the FW problems.
Unfortunately though, regarding USB2.0, there are no Apple drivers
for Mac OS 9.1.
Maaki
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---At 7:32 PM -0800 10/29/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:---
>This has been reported before - the chipset on some Firewire cards present
>problems for PCI macs. What I've learned is to look for TI or Lucent chips
>and avoid NEC's. OWC sells a simple Lucent two port card that has performed
>much more reliably than the Western Digital or OM cards (both using NEC
>chipsets) that we have used. It may be that some WD or OM cards do not have
>these problems, but we have not used them. There is an older video site on
>the web that lists the chipset for a variety of different Mac and PC firewire
>cards. We've found combination USB/FW cards a little more prone to large file
>transfer errors, so I use a separate card for USB. If you are using USB for
>hard drives or CDRWs or other high speed devices, you should look for 2.0.
>
>SL
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