FireWire Issues

[macshank]

Hi

Am starting this to overcome Firewire Security issues

Any guide to bypass this issue and enable firewire port?

Without Firewire, fully accomplished Mac is handicapped!

 

[macshank]

Hi

Intel DP55WG MainBoard uses
Texas Instruments TSB43AB22A Onboard Firewire chipset

I tried with a PCI VIA firewire chipset card, no success.

 

[macshank]

Everybodys got a Firewire port thats working fine ha?

Am wondering friends!

Give me some tips please

 

[longtom]

mines working fine!

 

[tonymacx86]

If you post your specs in your signature, we'll be able to help you better- my UD2 firewire works great.

 

[macshank]

Hi Tony


I chose these components to assemble a PC so that it matches latest iMac 27"

Intel DP55WG MainBoard/ Intel Core i5-750 Processor
2 x2 GB DDR3 RAM @ 1333/ 2x 500GB SATA HDD/ 24X Optiarc DVD Writer
512 MB XFX nVidia 9800GT card/ 22" Dell S2209W Display

This board uses TI TSB43AB22A chipset

Help me to resolve

Thanks in advance

 

[tonymacx86]

I never did anything to enable firewire on my build. It worked out of the box. I'd search the chipset in the tonymacx86 Search Engine. It will surely bring up some solutions:

http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2009/11/ ... -live.html

 

[thelostswede]

Are you sure the FireWire controller is enabled in the BIOS?
Does it work in Windows?
As I can't seem to find anyone else having problems with that controller.
Otherwise I really don't know...

 

[macshank]

Hi thelostswede

Firewire works fine in windows. In fact I added a via pci card too
for additional firewire pins for my video capture jobs.

Windows Device Manager lists both the onboard and pci firewire devices
properly.

When it comes to OS X I tried every other versions and all I get is
"ERROR: Firewire unable to determine security-mode; defaulting to full secure"

As long as this msg appears firewire wont work.

 

[thelostswede]

Have a look here http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php?topic=200.0 although this is related to Leopard, not Snow Leopard but it might give you some hints as to how to solve the problem.