I just bought a LaCie CD-RW drive, Firewire. I'm using a 7600* with a G3 upgrade and a USB/Firewire card in Slot $A1 (the card is listed as "pci-bridge").
Unfortunately, only the USB works right now. Apple System Profiler shows nothing of a Firewire nature, though the USB 0/1.4.1 (vendor-specific USB Serial Adaptor) shows up just fine.
I take it in my weird upgrade path using long-discarded update files never properly gave me FireWire extensions....
FireWire Enabler 2.2.2 and FireWire Support 2.0 are older than 9.1, right?
Besides, NEITHER extension will "stay marked" in Extensions Manager. I mark them, restart the Mac, and ... they are unmarked when the Mac is up again.
So, what should I do?
The FireWire extensions for 9.1 don't seem to be available for download.
So does this mean I've got to buy the 9.1 Install CD? (Yes, I know: I should have it anyway. My fear has been that as soon as I buy the install CD, I'll upgrade ot OS X or something! But I'll likely just buy it from OWC - unless someone wants to sell me one cheaper.)
Any other possible problems connecting a nice new LaCie CD-RW FireWire drive to an old 9.1-running G3 PCI Mac?
Would moving the PCI card to another slot give it a better shot of working? Anything else?
The problem is that the FireWire software you are using is for OS 9.0.x and is disabling itself in your 9.1 install. You need the 9.1 install that contains the 2.7 versions of the Enabler and Support files. You should be able to download the OS 9.1 update and running it might let you apply the 2.7 versions of the files. If that doesn't work, you might have to manually extract them using TomeViewer.
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