BoomR
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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Z490 VISION D
- CPU
- i9-10850K
- Graphics
- RX 580
- Mac
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I'm making a mac pro clone with a 2006 mac pro I bought off ebay for too cheap to pass up, so two cd drives, 2x firewire 400, 2x firewire 800 ect. I'd like to fill in all the ports so it looks like a natural rig, verse having that "cut out" slot at the back like most people seem to be a fan of.
I use firewire for my audio interface cards that run directly off firewire. I also have firewire external harddrives, so this can quickly eat up my firewire slots, since this rig only has enough ports to hookup two audio interface cards (16x in/out xlr/quarter inch each) and two other external things such as harddrives, projectors or cameras.
So to be honest I'd like more then 4, but its looking like 3 is what most have so I'll be happy with the 4 if I can make it happen...
I would assume then since my board is a lga 1366 that your firewire card is most likely not compatible to to the UEFI BIOS then? (Or forgive the newb question but how would I know or check?)
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You mentioned you got this card hooked up to your fw front port? do you know if the front is the same as the 5.1 mac case that has two cd drives (not the g5 case with one cd drive) or if theres a link on this forum to where I may be able to find the pin out to a 2006+ front panel?
I raided my old computer parts box and it looks like I actually have a older vr of that card, its a sd-pex-fwb... found a video saying it seems to work?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAf4OtTk3FQ
I'ma give it a try tomorrow... any advise to get it to work, or should it just be plug n play?
I can't really speak to your MP case/pin configuration, as it's different than my build. But would assume that it would work - just a lot of hand wiring to get the cases' existing ports connected up to the Syba card.
And again, I can't speak to the compatibility of something that I have personally not tried or used. So you may just have to experiment with it. Having said that, IMHO, if you are using multiple FW audio interfaces AND either a single or multiple FW hard drives on the same FW card, you may be asking for trouble, as that's a LOT of FW traffic on the same FW bus.
If you've got the $$, I'd get an additional FW card (maybe same as you already have if it works - or the Syba card that I use), and divide up your traffic between the cars. Maybe your 2 FW audio interfaces on 1 card, and your FW hard drives on another card. Otherwise, you risk data collision and that could translate into clicks & pops in your audio and/or audio dropping out.