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> Firewire Hub/repeater, how to work with only 1 fw port??
ulFo
post Tue 7 Mar 2006, 14:11
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i am looking for adwise on how to get the most from my macmini setup
since getting the m-audio projectmix and thus being forced to use a firewire hub to split to pm and to lacie external disc, things have been a nightmare (well, not only ...) with repeating kernel panics etc etc and heavy disk crashes and lost files in cubase. before I had the motu828mkII and things worked fine at least when recording 8 tracks which is what I want to do. However now I can only do around 5 tracks before things start mess up. I see the problem is the firwire hub/splitter (its an 3-4year old one ..dont know the specs) and wonder if anyone can recommend a solution that could solve the problem or am I looking for something impossible? I see that there is something called firewire hub/repeater (f.inst from Belkin) on the marked and wondered maybe if that could do the trick?
Thanks in advance and yes I am a dreamer and will continue stay so ....))
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post Wed 8 Mar 2006, 04:21
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Can't you chain them without the hub? unsure.gif

mini<=>HD<=>projectmix

Now if the hub is 4-5 years old, I'd look suspiciously at it… i have no experience with FW hubs, but a repeater is an active hub so should be better… now, I'd look about the the return policy if it's still a mess just in case.

I'd tell the guys at M-audio too, if MOTU can make it, they should be able too wink.gif You can even ask them if they know of a hub working with their projectmix without fuss, they may know.

What's the Hard drive you use? enclosure?

(moved the thread to mac and peripherals, it's more related) wink.gif


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post Wed 8 Mar 2006, 22:45
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cant chain them i.e. disc is lacie w only one fw input and so is the project mix - macmini has only one fw port

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ill try get a new hub but before I do I am waiting to see if anyone else has any experience on with any hub/repeater they have used

if not I guess best solution is to install 7200 rpm disc in macmini and drop the external enclosure

thanx for your reply
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post Tue 5 Dec 2006, 18:47
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when using the project mix I have found that you can't have anything sharing the firewire interface... I had a lacie harddrive on my firewire 800 port with the 400 port being used for the project mix and experienced kernel panics and my audio would skip... but when I moved the lacie HD to a USB 2 port everything works great and really stable
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