Ibook G3 Dillema: Firewire Interface W/firewire Hd, FW410, one FW port Options

[asfdzxxc]

M-audio says not to run a fw HD thru the same port it's connected to, so a FW hd is out of the question unless it does work in practice. Are there any other solutions?

[e sparalesto]

sell your FW410 ??

[dixiechicken]

You can try to run it anyway to se what happens.

According to MOTU there is not "per se" any such restrictions in their hardware.

Firewire Drives and MOTU 828/896
Assuming a FW drive has acceptable multimedia spec, there's no reason why you couldn't use it as a record and playback destination for digital audio. 7200 RPMS is the spec to look for in Firewire drives. Glyph makes high end audio drives, and we've also tested VST smart disk HDs.<br><br>The 896 provides a "passthru" for daisy chaining a firewire HD. If you have an 828 you can daisy chain it to the HD (if the HD has a passthu)... or you can use a powered firewire hub. NOTE: G4s with firewire 800 have problems using FW audio interfaces and FW hard drives at the same time. To run both on these machines you'd need to add a PCI firewire card wtih a TI or Luncet chip and run the MOTU audio interfaces off of that card and the hard drives off of the internal firewire ports (or vice versa).

Above quote is from Motu:s techsupport docs.

Cheers: Dixiechicken

[e sparalesto]

and as told in FW410 install manual :

install the driver
reboot
after reboot plug your FW device

if you own a G4 previous Quicksilver,
YOU SHOULD NEVER DO THAT !
because they don't have a phy protection
pluging a FW410 while your computer is running can kill your firewire ports for good and indeed it's what it did with mine !

I am confused by your post. I own a Quicksilver and want to know about anything that could fry my firewire ports 4 sure! i'm unclear as to exactly what you did to make this happen. Could you explain a little more.
Thnx

[e sparalesto]

i just followed the installation instructions...

m-audio tell to plug you card as your computer is running which is risky because G4 models previous to the Quicksilver (included ?) don't have a protected phy and chances are that the fw ports will either been deactivate or killed by such manners.

fact is that when they release their products they rely on current Apple computers specifications and didn't read the old gears ones, well old, i'm not talking G3 here...

1-m-audio do not follow Apple specifications
2-there are no warning about that anywhere in the documentation
3-when your fw ports are killed they leave you in the dust