Firewire PCI card not seen by El Capitan

[Issari]

I just built my first Hackintosh this week to use for music editing by converting a Win7 machine I already had. But I can't get the Mac OS to see my Syba SY-PEX30016 Firewire card. Has anyone run into issues like this? I've read a few threads where people have mentioned just plug and playing the card.
Other than the card the system is running smoothly.

My setup is:
ASUS P8Z77-V LK (updated to the most recent BIOS)
Intel i5-3570K
Nvidia 460GTX (although I'm running the OS X Default Graphics Driver)
Sandisk Extreme 120GB SSD

Thanks!

 

[powerpcg5]

Try a different slot in your mobo. Syba works great, no 3rd party kext required. If your mobo has built-in FW, try disabling that.

 

[Issari]

Switched slots, but it still can't be seen. I can see it with my Windows (dual boot system), but nothing with 10.11.5.
No built-in FW on the board either.

 

[Stork]

Issari,
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[Issari]

Sorry. Had included in my original post, but obviously not my profile. Have since amended.

 

[Issari]

And sorry for any curt responses. My son's childcare is closed today, so I'm watching him while troubleshooting.

 

[Mystroe]

Hope you don't mind me jumping on the thread. I've finally managed to install 10.11.5 on asus x99-s. I plugged my STARTECH (pex1394a2v) firewire card in and on boot up screen goes black. Any thoughts or suggestions? I know the startech works because I did a previous install and tested it out. All thoughts and suggestions appreciated.

 

[Issari]

Interesting wrinkle to my issue: I bought a StarTech PCI1394MP (so not a PCIe card, but a PCI) that I read worked in other builds. When I installed it in one PCI slot, nothing. But when I tried my other PCI slot I could no longer boot up with the nVidia graphics driver running. Take the card out and it boots up again like a champ.

This FireWire issue is that last little thing I need to fix to make this a workable machine for me. And it's necessary, as the whole purpose to run a Mac OS on this hardware is for a more stable Pro Tools setup with my Mbox 3 Pro that only connects via FireWire. It's so close I can taste it!

 

[Issari]

And one more addition. I ran IORegistryExplorer that I saw suggested on another forum. It sees the PCI card, lists it correctly as a FireWire controller, and when I plug in and turn on my Mbox, it pops up in the IO list. Don't know the next step.

 

[Mystroe]

Don't know the next step.

Me neither yet. I don't think this applies to your motherboard but it might be something worth looking inttherwise PCI mapping..

Here is a possibility

Copy Test2.efi from the link in the 1st post @ http://www.tonymacx86.com/el-capita...d-news-x99-10-11-haswell-e-el-capitan-21.html to /EFI/ClOVER/drivers64UEFI folder if you use more than 2 pci-e devices (I do) [Malki http://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/s...itan-10-11-2-clover-guide-100-working.183441/ ]​