Just a question. Is it the portability of firewire that makes it such a hot item? Just wondering. Isn't a dedicated PCI card still better than firewire in terms of recordable tracks, data transfer etc.

WOW! This is very cool peeps...I built a small celeron machine with some parts I had laying around and put a NIC and a 1394a card in there..put XP on it

LOL, I can't figure this out. :o I've tried two different 1394 cards, the first was an Actiontec. Windows XP installed the driver, Device Manager shows the card as working properly, but I can't capture video! So I ran out to Staples (10 minutes before closing time) and picked up a Maxtor 1394. Same sh*t. Both Vegas Video 3, and Videowave 4 show no capture device.

Last time I was at a Digi demo, I asked when Pro Tools was going to work on Firewire drives. Imagine my surprise when i was told it already did - up to 24 tracks.

Can someone recommend a combination firewire/usb card for my Power Mac 9600/350 upgraded with a Newer G3 500/250, OS 8.6?

I'm pretty sure I'll have to upgrade my OS to at least 9.04, or even 9.1

I'm using a Pro Tools Mix Plus system. Will my PCI bus be overloaded if I install a PCI firewire/usb card?

I run a mix plus on a quicksilver 733 with atto SCSI ultra and two IDE drives - what about firewire?

I heard you can only run 24 tracks from a firewire drive... true?
Is firewire as fast as a SCSI ultra (...10`000 rpm)

what are you working with? :cool:

Hi,

At MOTU's site they say Glyph M Project is ready to go (and it's got the MOTU look and rackmount). Also can be easily daisychained with the MOTU 828. The big problem here is the price.

For a couple of hundred bucks less there are some other choices like OWC, but would like to read some opinions on this issue first.

Hi,

I'm just configuring a portable setup like this: iBook + 828 + 80 GB FireWire HD. Glyph M Project looks nice because it has the MOTU look and it's also rackmount, but too expensive. At Glyph website they say it's the only drive recommended by MOTU.

I'm thinking of buying a firewire audio box to run with Logic on a G4 titanium - maybee the Apogee Track2 or the MOTU 896.

Has anyone used either of these boxes ?

Is there a great firwire box I'm missing out ?

Are there any pitfalls with using Firewire I should know about ?

Thanks.

I have MAC g4 with external scasi CDr and hdd, two ide disks and NOW one firewire disk.

PROBLEM:
when I try to copy the files from the second ide disk on the firewire disk machine stop working after 17mb transfer.

I have mac os9.1
mac g4 350mhz / 890mb ram
scasi adaptec, IBM ide disks...