firewire

I have found trying to use a bus powered FireWire hard drive (an owc mercury on the go) to be a bit frustrating. If I try to use the drive connected directly to the Mac it can fail to be seen by the Mac and OS X. If I use a bus powered belkin fw400 hub it works but can fail to be seen by the Mac...

Hello, I was wondering, if I were to get a FireWire 400 hub, can I boot from things connected to it? I am asking because my iBook G4 only has one FireWire port and I wasn't sure if this is a viable solution. FireWire drives are pricey and I know that I can't boot from a drive connected to my USB...

Currently I am using my mixer /audio interface on my old 2011 MacBook Pro with HighSierra. But during the next year I would like to upgrade to the new 16 inch MacBook Pro with an M1 chip. Is anybody here who did the shift as well from an Intel to an Apple Silicon chip and succeeded in using his...

Hi macrumors. I hope I can find help here. I have a 2011 27°” iMac specs 16gb ram 1333 i7 3.4 some radeon card 850 Evo ssd 1tb The Gpu isn’t working anymore it burned about and getting hot every time I’m starting it. The Mac isn’t booting it just shows a white screen when I start it. I can’t...

Im trying to use a Rolland Edirol FA-101 firewire interface but when connected sometimes the device don't show in the audio interfaces but shows in the system report under the firewire tab, other times i get a panic heres the panic report, does anyone know how to fox this ? Anonymous UUID...

Got a 2012 non retina MBP: Noticed a weird thing yesterday - when I went to do a 1st time machine backup via FW800, the trackpad/cursor glitched out & became almost completely unusable. It was tremendously laggy & mostly unresponsive while the FW800 drive was plugged in. Plugging in a...

I recently purchased an old 10GB 2nd Gen iPod off eBay and have spent the last week trying to get it to connect to one of my computers. It's a Windows model formatted in FAT32, and it came with one song loaded on it. That song plays fine and the rest of the standalone functionality works fine...

Hi all, i got my G5 tower out of storage setup Final Cut Studio 2 on the machine it works really good for editing a load of Standard Def footage captured off my Canon XL1. The problem is during Firewire capture in FCP. The footage has all lines through it when playing as if it needs...

I have a mac mini 1,1 connected to a drobo with 3 drives in it. The mac mini us running 10.5.8 server and the the drobo is split into share points one for data and then one for time machine for each of my macs. all my macs have differnt acounts and acces there own set of drives the data drive...

Earlier i tried turning on my external hard drive that was attached to my QS. now the drive is connected to the mac with a firewire cable. i turned on my other drive that's daisy chained to the first hard drive but it wouldn't show up on the desktop. is there something about the firewire drives...

I recently purchased a Sony HVR-M15U in order to capture many Mini-DV tapes in both DV and HDV formats. The unit appears to be working as I can view video on an external monitor etc. I connected it to my older MacPro and connected it via a firewire cable. I launched iMovie and when I turned on...

Hey, I just bought a 'for parts' 3rd generation iPod on eBay for a good price, (I've always wanted to own this model, and I am fairly confident that I can fix it, since I think it just needs a HDD swap). I have done it before with an iPod photo, which turned out just to have the data cable...

Anyone tried this card in a 7,1? https://www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-com-Port-Express-FireWire-Adapter/dp/B000WCT5HK id rather get a pcie card for my FireWire devices rather than the thunderbolt adapters. thanks

I have a 2010-vintage Canon Vixia HV40 camcorder. It is HDV (high def, but uses MiniDV tapes). I have loads of old footage in both standard-def and high-def on MiniDV cassettes. Not ready to give them up yet. I have no idea exactly how many minutes total that are stored on tape, but it obviously...

Hello I have an old Firewire drive I used on an iMac 2013 with a Firewire to Thunderbolt adapter. I updated to a new iMac. I'm hailing a heckuva difficult time figuring out how to connect from FW to the new computer, which seems to have USB-C ports labeled with the same icon as the old...

Hey guys, I bought a MacBook Pro, 15", 2010 on eBay and it works fine, except both of its USB ports are fried. Is there any way to still connect USB peripherals to it, such as hard drives, smartphones etc? I was hoping to connect a USB hub to its FireWire, or Thunderbolt port. (Well, there's...

Hi, my name is Gabriel Bento from Brazil, and I have been trying to wrap my head around this issue for quite some time now and I am completely lost. I'm seeking some help, hopefully someone here will be able to spot something I'm missing. It's quite a long story and I think a very weird one, so...

So there are a mess of used, PCI combo FW1394a/USB2.0 cards being sold all over which were for Sun servers (I'm guessing SPARC) during the early/mid-’00s — the ASY-90145 (375-3140-05). Try as I may, I cannot locate original tech specs for this card, so I lack knowledge of whether this was PCI...

I am looking for a Thunderbolt 2 to a firewire 400 adapter. Anybody knows where to get one? I have googled it, but can't seem to find one. :( Is the trick to go for thunderbolt to firewire 800 and then a converter from firewire 800 to 400 (will this work with audio recording - stable) ...

I need advice. I'm in uncharted territory for my skillset. I have an old imac, (I mean, duh, I'm posting in the iMac forum.)and I'm plannign on geting a new external hard drive. Problem is, I have 3 USB ports on the Mac, and two firewire ports. One USB is for the mouse. One USB is for the...