john dudek wrote:
> OK. i've read the archives on firewire and my S900. I've installed the 9.2 > firewire extensions but still can't breathe life into my card. I've tried 2 > different ones, OWC and Tripp Lite. The Tripp lite is seen but unrecognized. > The OWC seemed to work initially but then disappeared. I have my son's 6 > gig powerbook HD hooked up in an OWC mercury enclosure. The indicator light > glows green to amber but doesn't show up on my desktop. Anyway, I want to > try an external power supply but haven't gotten a reply back from OWC. Can > someone give me some direction on what to buy? > -- > John Dudek > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi there I bought one of those 'Sony EZ Edit' firewire cards at Good Guys last summer. Paid too much for it, but inside the card is branded 'Pinnacle' and comes with a cut down version of their cheapest software. PC of course, but the card worked perfectly with my Mac clone, a J700. I've used it with an iBot and a JVC camcorder. I also have a firewire scanner, but the driver disk is $35 and I don't have it :-( Its a Umax scanner, you'd think they'd stick the driver for it on their site, but they want you to buy their crappy, system crashing memory eating software along with it :-( Its an Astra 6450 if anyone wants to hook me up with a driver ;-) So, if you buy a PC card from Pinnacle it will probably work. I also had an old Lynx firewire card with a TI chipset on it, and it worked, but wouldn't initialize the iBot properly, I think it was a power problem as the card had the small, 4 pin floppy drive power connector for powering the bus-which J700s lack due to Apple's different floppy.. I'm using Z-Firewire2.4.smi from Apple, and it works fine. 2.3 had some problems which 2.4 seemed to fix. There might be a 2.5 but since 2.4 worked fine, I didnt' go any further. Hope this helps Bolton PS it doesn't seem to matter which slot this card is in-it has worked in four of the five slots in this machine (soon to be six :-) -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
