The FireWire 800/400 card to own for 100% compatibility

[zipb]

My old Startech FW card(that worked fine in my old non-UEFI Z68XP rig) is rebooting my Z170X on shutdown, so I'm looking for a new FW card. The Syba cards are rather expensive where I live.

I would like suggestions for tried & tested FW cards that are well behaved in Z170 setups(don't reboot on shutwdown, allow sleep), and are readily available in the EU region.

 

[zipb]

So I swapped my Startech card for a $40 Delock 89153 3 port PCIe FW card with TI chip(and stupid old fashioned 4-pin power plug). Reboot on shutdown problem solved. FW400 & 800 ports work with expected speed, audio plays OK via my FW interface.
Will do some more stress testing, but for now I'm a happy camper.

 

[Obioban]

So, I'm building a Hackintosh in a PowerMac G5 case, and am reusing the stock front panel.

I bought this cable: http://g5atxcables.weebly.com/g5-atx-adapter-cables.html

Seems like the current crop of motherboards (e.g. my Z170 gaming 5) doesn't have a firewire header anymore.

I hate not having functions work... is the a PCI card that I could plug that header into to have working firewire on the front?

Thanks!

 

[stereosympathy]

I would like to add to the list of firewire cards that are working directly out of the box. I just picked up a Vantec UGT-FW210 which has been briefly mentioned in this post previously. It has the TI
XIO2213 chipset and it works perfectly out of the box in my El Capitan hackintosh running an MSI Z97 Gaming 5 mobo. No drivers required, although it does have the 4 pin molex connector. Very happy that this worked without any monkeying around!

 

[diafebus]

I feel that I need to explain my own experience with the startech card… first of all I always have to turn on the computer and then restart it to get the card working, once that is done I got everything running fine and when I shut down it reboots automatically, if I remove the card all works smooth… I'm starting to think If I should sell the firewire audio card and move on… I own a Fireface 400 which works incredibly well but firewire is giving me too many headache… my previous firewire card was a Lacie Firewire 800 that worked amazing until it started making my pc get random freezes, either on mac and PC.
Is there any other firewire card PCI or PCIe that can work and avoid me having restarts and reboots and stuff like that?

Thanks

 

[NicoD]

I installed the card KALEA-INFORMATIQUE © - Carte Controleur PCI vers FireWire 400 IEEE1394a - 3 ports - Chipset TEXAS INSTRUMENTS TI TSB43AB22A that has been working perfectly well since day one. It's obviously a French vendor and it doesn't seem to be sold in the US. It should be available in Europe.
Nick

 

[jtgroven]

So I swapped my Startech card for a $40 Delock 89153 3 port PCIe FW card with TI chip(and stupid old fashioned 4-pin power plug). Reboot on shutdown problem solved. FW400 & 800 ports work with expected speed, audio plays OK via my FW interface.
Will do some more stress testing, but for now I'm a happy camper.

So, how is it with this card? Working good?

Thanks

 

[zipb]

So, how is it with this card? Working good?

Thanks

Yes. Works fine. No shutdown problems.

 

[AndreL]

I need to install a firewire card on my new Hackintosh in order to use an old film scanner which has only firewire 400 connection or SCSI (!). I have an old FW card previously installed on my old pc, but the pins doesn't fit my mobo. do you think the two options down there will work? I've seen that some people has shutdown problems with the Gigabyte z170x ud5-th motherboard.

https://www.amazon.it/dp/B01EX5WPLO/?tag=tonymacx86com-21


https://www.amazon.it/dp/B000WAUP8K/?tag=tonymacx86com-21

any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[NicoD]

I need to install a firewire card on my new Hackintosh in order to use an old film scanner which has only firewire 400 connection or SCSI (!). I have an old FW card previously installed on my old pc, but the pins doesn't fit my mobo. do you think the two options down there will work? I've seen that some people has shutdown problems with the Gigabyte z170x ud5-th motherboard.
https://www.amazon.it/dp/B01EX5WPLO/?tag=tonymacx86com-21
https://www.amazon.it/dp/B000WAUP8K/?tag=tonymacx86com-21
any help would be greatly appreciated

Have a look at my build: NicoD's Build: Gigabyte GA-H170-HD3 + Intel Skylake Core i5-6600 in a Corsair Carbide 200R case. I bought the second one and it worked just fine. No setting or driver needed: I plugged my FW HD and my audio interface and everything ran smoothly.
What makes it work with Mac OS it the chipset Texas Instruments ti tsb43ab23. A card with it almost is guaranteed to work.
My advice, since you have only one FW400 device (I have two), is to buy the simpler one. The FW technology is dead so there no chance we will need it in the future when our devices are out.
Nick