kassotis

Firewire Cardbus On A Powerbook G4

Hi,

I have an external firewire 400 hard drive and the rme fireface 800 audio unit.
I was thinking that it would be much better to use a cardbus on the pcmcia slot of the powerbook and not use the same firewire bus for both the audio unit and the drive.
However I'm not sure whether the powerbook makes full use of both at the same time or it somehow shares them. I guess something like irq sharing...
I'm not very good at that so any info will be great.
I'm also using USB 2 hard drive and some other usb 1 devices so virtually every port of the powerbook is used.
Will it change the performance if i seperate the 2 firewire devices or it will just create more sharing issues...?

thanks

Ion

Fireface 800 Problems On Powerbook

Hi,

Im running OSX 10.3.9 on a Powerbook G4 1.5 GHz, 1GB memory and i just bought FIREFACE 800 thinking that its probably one of the best soundcards of its kind.

Unfortunatelly I cannot update the card's firmware (It fails at the end) and I'm having cliks on the right output channel (All right outputs headphones, spdif etc).

I have tried different firewire cables, 800 and 400, with and without devices connected on the firewire bus, isolated mains supply, reinstalled drivers, repaired permissions but still.
Crackles happen at all buffer settings, with logic, ableton live, itunes, quicktime, osx sounds etc.

Just to make sure, I've tested the unit on a PC and it had the same problems so I thought it must be the unit. So I went and REPLACED it but i'm still having exactly the same problems .

Any help would be great.

Ion

P.S. : I'm using the latest FIREFACE 800 drivers 2.01 and have tried flashing the unit with 1.83 flash utility and even the 1.66 one but no luck.

Fat32 Or Osxtended

Hi,

Just bought a powerbook and I have all my PC files on an external western digital hard drive. I want my computer optimised mainly for audio so I was wondering whether I should reformat the external drive to the native mac format or keep the FAT32 (gaining PC compatibility I suppose).

cheers
Ion