Anyone using Firewire on their Zeph installs? I don't see much mention of firewire other then many people needing to turn it off in BIOS to get things to work.

I'm on an A8N32-SLI board and 1394 is turned on in the BIOS but I get no activity whatsoever when plugging in firewire devices.

Are the chipset drivers for AMD (nForce4 in my case) not complete enough to enable 1394 onboard? Anyone using an add-in card that we know will work?

Thanks!

Rob

Hi RLembke, Ima using Firewire here (onboard and pci 3 port) both working ok, i have 2 lacie external firewire hard disks and both are working correctly...

My Leopard install was done with zephys 10.5.2 rev 1.

Firewalk

What board and chipset driver are you using?

Motherboard is a Asus M2A-VM 690g sb600..and i am using a custom sb600 kext from insanley mac..

hope this helps.

Firewalk

Is anyone else having issues using Firewire? I purchased a PCI Firewire card thinking that maybe the onboard drivers for nForce4 might not be supported but the PCI card doesn't work either. I also tried a few of Chun-Nan's fixes on Insanelymac.

Any thoughts or suggestions? This is really the last thing I need to have a completed working system. Thanks!

Rob

I bought this card last week:

http://amzn.to/1AfbBuB

worked OOTB (Zephyroth 10.5.2 rev. 1)

Strange, I'm fine here too and I have an A8N-SLI Premium (slighly different than your board, but same chipset I think). Which release are you running, rev 1 or 2 ? I am using rev 1.

I'm on Rev 1 as well, agrafuese. What does your About Mac say in the Firewire section? Mine just says "set to 400mbs speed" or something to that effect. I only have one Firewire device (a Sony camcorder) so I haven't determined whether I'm not correctly configured or if my device just isn't supported properly.

Thank you for the link, alphabeta23! That gives me a chipset that works for sure. Might be ordering another card.

Maybe I need to play around with the BIOS settings to see if a certain combo of settings let them work.

Rob

ohhh, if you only have that one firewire device, try getting ahold of something else, like a hard drive or something. it could be the device itself being incompatible, or needing additional software, or something...who knows...but yeah, my About Mac says the same thing yours does, so you should be fine. don't see why it wouldn't work.

Hey,
before getting a new card, try a new firewire-cable...I had the same issue with my camcorder. A good-quality cable was the solution!