Gregg Gorrie wrote:
> Thanks for the tip Alan. I'll give it a shot once the new FW card is > installed. Or maybe I'll get lucky and the new card won't have that > limitation ... (thinking positively). ---------- Gregg - I offered it as hindsight so the PCI card juggling can be avoided. In my case none of that mattered after wasting a lot of time chasing after nothing. A simple control panel tweak and rebooting solved it. It took several settings and rebooting to figure out a happy medium. The card resides on slot 3 as I like to call it. (I still haven't checked mine against your information about the chip.) In HDST, hightlight the Firewire drive and click on "Driver Tuning Options". There are two controls - Max Payload Size and Max Data Transfer Size. Mine are set on 1024 Bytes and 512 Kilobytes, respectively. Max settings are 2048 and 1024. There is also an Auto setting which lets the hardware and bridge type determine the speed. (Installing the card in whichever slot and acquiring/formatting/partitioning the HD was effortless.) Have fun. Alan -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
