Posted by David on March 03, 19101 at 07:49:13:
In Reply to: Fire Wire - Is it really dire wire? posted by David on March 03, 19101 at 07:47:13:
: I bought a 38 meg FireWire drive from macsales.com and an Orange Micro PCI card to attach it
: to my beige powermac - it's been nothing but a pain in the ass - first problem is a bunch of
: conflicting inits - Apple's - OrangeMicro's and the firm whose outer box houses the drive -
: Then I found the data I copied to it was transferring slower than even USB - and then I found
: that I couldn't copy it back without the drive freezing - Now I find neither NUM 4.0.3 nor
: NUM 6.0 can run Disc Doctor for it without freezing - I reinitialised it using my Apple Disc Tools
: initialiser and started again - but it's still proving be to be very iffy - I'm told to get rid of the
: proprietorial inits and reply on Apple's only - but that doesn't help either.
Basically I don't know if it would be so unhappy plugged into a G4 - but plugged into this PCI card is
: a nitemare