 Firewire 800/400 Problems |
 Sat 8 Apr 2006, 17:11
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Hi there.
I've got problems trying to make my firewire devices function to their full capablility. I have a OWC Mercury Elite Pro Al 250Gb Triple interface external hard disk (what a mouthful!) connected to my powerbook G4 1.5Ghz via a firewire 800 cable to the onboard firewire 800 slot, and it works fine, running at 800 Mb/s. BUT, I've also got an M-Audio Projectmix which connects with a firewire 400 cable. I've just bought a PCMCIA firewire adapter so that the hard disk and the Projectmix can have their own separate bus, but when I plug the Projectmix in the speed of the Hard disk connection drops to 400Mb/s. I can't understand why, when they're connected on different buses. (The whole reason why I bought the PCMCIA Firewire card was to get around this problem!) Please help!! Thanks. |
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Sun 9 Apr 2006, 14:43
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: 08-Apr 06 From: Cheltenham - UK Member No.: 78,981 |
There's no information about the card in system profiler. It just says:
FireWire Bus: Maximum Speed: Up to 400 Mb/sec I've just noticed that in the top window of the profiler in the firewire tab, the firewire card's FireWire Bus sits above the Built-in FireWire bus. Does this mean it's higher in priority? Is there any way to change them around? Just inserting the card makes the speed of the built-in bus drop to 400Mb/s regardless of whether any firewire devices are plugged into it. |
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djrucksack Firewire 800/400 Problems Sat 8 Apr 2006, 17:11
lepetitmartien First time I see this!
Which PCMCIA card is... Sat 8 Apr 2006, 22:17 djrucksack The PCMCIA card doesn't have a manufacturer na... Sat 8 Apr 2006, 23:45 lepetitmartien Where does it come from? Sun 9 Apr 2006, 02:51 djrucksack It's this one:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayI... Sun 9 Apr 2006, 10:11 lancet check in system profiler to see if there is any mo... Sun 9 Apr 2006, 14:29
lepetitmartien I'm not sure at all if the order in the profil... Sun 9 Apr 2006, 15:27 |
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