At 7:16 PM -0500 12/6/02, John Albert wrote: >Hopefully, I've presented enough information so that anyone considering >Firewire has enough to get started...
My first experience with FW was a year ago when I bought a Sony FW CD-RW and an Adaptec DirectDuo card with both USB 2.0 & FW onboard. I was going to install it in my aging C600. The FW side showed up but the USB was non-existent. BTW, John's comment about the card not showing up properly in the Apple Profiler is spot on--ASP shows it as an ethernet device! But I digress. I sent in to Adaptec's support site complete documentation of the C series and my FrankenMac, blah, blah. Frankly (not Shirley), Adaptec was clueless and I felt rather dusted off by their lack of knowledge and a concomitant cavalier attitude to my efforts at providing relevant technical details to their product implementation--the DirectDuo had just been released and I figured they would be interested in hearing from reasonably well informed users, albeit a home user in my case, what issues were becoming evident. Alas (not a lad), Adaptec seemed not particularly interested besides offering a refund on the card. I declined the offer; I wanted to get to the heart of why the card wasn't working on a Mac system. After a couple of exchanges on the list with Jeff W. (may his tents be enlarged), the likely reason the Adaptec card didn't work was because the C series PCI bus was not minimally PCI 2.1 compliant and the card would be 2.2 compliant. Not the least of which the various and sundry timing issues on the C mainboard demonstrated the validity of Hessian partial derivative calculus computing critical points in 3 dimensional space. Feel the joy. Now get this--a CompUSA card (FW & USB 1.1) installed and works flawlessly and it cost $20. I installed the Adaptec card in a PC to share the Sony burner. Adaptec support fell off my Christmas card list last year. I'm watching too much Imus In The Morning on MSNBC. -- Pax, Pastor Mac Made on a Macintosh, of course. -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
