LOOK! I installed Lion but the firewire is NOT recognized on my Mac Pro!

I do not doubt what you say. However, I am surprised that Apple Support are saying that there's a hardware issue on Macbook Pro / firewire / Lion. If that was the case, then I would have hoped that the Lion installation would detect its target hardware and, at the very least, warn you that your firewire is about to break.

I have found this out to my cost. Nothwithstanding the price of Lion, it's cost me at least a day trying to figure out if my Western Digital drive had coincidentally broken (it hasn't because it's fine on USB).

Do I get a warranty with Lion? If I do, I'd like my money back.

I have a FW-1884, and I figured out how to get it to work in Lion.

The FW-1884 drivers do not work with Lion's 64-bit kernel. You have to boot Lion with the 32-bit kernel. Hold down the 3 and 2 keys while you boot, and the Tascam will become available.

The next time you reboot the machine it will automatically revert to the default 64-bit kernel.

I aint got the time to drag my studio down there so I went back to Snow Leopard.

Wait until you find out that you can no longer Bounce an e-mail!

Theodore W Folkerth wrote:

I have a FW-1884, and I figured out how to get it to work in Lion.

The FW-1884 drivers do not work with Lion's 64-bit kernel. You have to boot Lion with the 32-bit kernel. Hold down the 3 and 2 keys while you boot, and the Tascam will become available.

The next time you reboot the machine it will automatically revert to the default 64-bit kernel.

Thanks for the info. Works for me!

Got that problem with my Freecom HD... Just tried to boot in 32 bit mode but it didnt work. How can I check that I am in 32 bit mode??

Mac OS X v10.6: Starting up with the 32-bit or 64-bit kernel

Mac OS X: 64-bit kernel frequently asked questions

MPG - Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Booting into 64-bit mode (Snow Leopard)

I assume TWT installed or reinstalled a driver, as well as changed the default boot mode to the 32-bit kernel. Maybe...?

Which Macbook are you using? That one has me perplexed. As for Tascam doing anything about this, I would not hold my breath if I were you. The FW-1884 has been discontinued since at least December (ahead of its time, it's also six years old now). That machine was designed by Frontier Design anyway, and I think Tascam never wrote their own drivers for it.

Hatter,

I reinstalled the driver when I was updating my test laptop, but I didn't on my main machine, and just booting into the 32-bit kernel was all I needed to do to get it to show up. The Tascam driver I am using is 1.7, by the way.

Some drivers will be moved and 'uniinstalled' by Lion update, and need to run the installer to get them into the extensions, and to rebuild the extensions.mkext file.

ok so according to some this issue is exclusive to mac pros. This is not true. I have the same issue on a quad i5 iMac mid 2010 with 12g of memory. Rebooting to 32 bit does solve the issue but rebooting again will not put you back into 64 bit unless you hold down 6 and 4 while rebooting. The problem remanifests which means it only works in 32 bit kernal. The only real resolution is for tascam to update the workstation drivers. I see it unlikely Which means I may have to retire the 1082. Its a shame. I love this thing.

now I am also having issues with AC-7 (and ac-7 xt) not being fully functional. I assume they will probably update it a lot sooner than tascam will. I don't even want to try the BCR-2000. It will make me cry. I wish these DAW designers and companies would be more on top of this stuff. It is soley their fault. Lion has been in dev for more than enough time. There really is no excuse.

Is something like a driver is only 32-bit you need to set the default to 32-bit kernel mode as the new default.

Vendors are slow to move to 64-bit drivers. Windows Vista took a good year or two to get there, and people worried about 64-bit. With Apple, because the OS doesn't force you to use 64-bit kernel, it actually makes it harder to push vendors.