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Q: I have a pre-G3 Power Macintosh computer, an OrangeLink USB 2.0/FireWire PCI card (95PCB00112) and the drivers seem to be installed properly but I cannot get any devices to work. Why?
A: The OrangeLink USB 2.0/FireWire PCI card (95PCB00112) is compatible with the Macintosh All-in-one G3, Power Macintosh Beige G3 rev. B or later, Power Macintosh Blue & White G3, and Power Macintosh G4 series computers. There is an incompatibility between the OrangeLink USB 2.0/FireWire PCI card (95PCB00112) and all other PCI based Macintosh computers.
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If you get a new FW card, avoid NEC chipsets, they will corrupt data. Look for TI (Texas Instruments) chipsets, which are best by far. USB2 only works with Panther forward, so unless you're running Panther, you can forget about USB2 completely. Even with Panther, some USB2 cards don't work correctly.
There is a Lacie firmware update available for the Lacie Firewire enclosure, make sure you have the latest installed (http://www.lacie.com/support/drivers/).
On Sep 1, 2004, at 2:08 PM, G-List wrote:
I have a G3, 233mhz, with an Orange Micro Firewire/USB2 card. When I try to
back up large files/or a big folder to an external lacie firewire hard drive -
it hangs and freezes up the system. When I break it out and take
file-by-file in a folder it works no problem- but this can take forever. The drive works
fine on all other macs I have - even another beige tower with an adaptec
firewire card. Seems like some sort of data thru-put. Any ideas how to fix?
very frustrating.
Thanks in advance,
Linda
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