Belkin PCI-Express firewire card

Hi

Does anyone know what´s the trick is to make the Belkin Firewire 3-port PCI Express Card(F5U504ea)work in a Mac Pro running OS 10.4.10. or have any tricks/drivers...??

Mac Pro, 2.66Ghz, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Aug 13, 2007 7:44 AM

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Oct 17, 2007 12:32 PM in response to The hatter

I am using a SIIG PCI Express Firewire 800 card in my MacPro, so far so good, only trouble i cant seem to figure out how to connect the power supply on the card itself. It requires a Molex connector, might use a ATX cable to Molex as i think this is what Apple use on the ATI 1900XT cards in the MacPro, its an ATX style 4 pin block.

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PS Revision 2 Cards Only

Message was edited by: jpgrove

Oct 17, 2007 12:39 PM in response to The hatter

In my particular situation, not having access to the front 1394a port (400), I have to rely solely on the rear port, into which I've plugged an +Apogee Ensemble+ audio interface which according to the manufacturer (and several users on other audio forums), does not like to be daisy-chained with other devices, hence, where does one plug in the firewire hub connector from the cinema display? Additional 1394a ports are required with its own bus such that the Ensemble can have a bus to itself, which it appears to prefer. Keep in mind that the Ensemble was developed by Apogee AND Apple, together. How do they not anticipate this significant quirk per connectivity?

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