Krevinek
Evil PPC Tweaker
This is a rather amazing discovery, although I haven't had the gall to test it out myself yet (I have 3 slots, 3 full, and I don't wanna lose my nice 5 button USB mouse to test this yet), this is pretty darn spiffy if what I suspect is true.
CompUSA sells a very generic '3 port+1' Firewire card for about 30$, 10$ cheaper than QPS' piece of garbage Firewire card, and a good 30$ less than the HD makers charge for one. The thing is, they label it as Win98SE+ only. However, this appears to be wrong.
I recently managed to convince my friend to get a FW card and HD for expandability, especially since he wants to do video capture later on, and wants to buy a new iMac this December instead of his parents' 1Ghz Gateway machine which has never been stable running WinME. So, we get the cheap FW card from CompUSA, plop it in, and as I am reading the installation manual for the hell of it and watch the screen recognize it... the beautiful term 'OHCI' pops up in both the manual and the screen.
CompUSA is selling this generic card using VIA's OHCI FW host controller. Since Apple really only supports 3rd party USB/FW cards using OHCI host controllers, this is great news. This means that you could very possibly plop one of these generic cards into your machine and have it work with 8.6 or later, even though they don't make a single mention of the Mac.
Interesting, eh?
CompUSA sells a very generic '3 port+1' Firewire card for about 30$, 10$ cheaper than QPS' piece of garbage Firewire card, and a good 30$ less than the HD makers charge for one. The thing is, they label it as Win98SE+ only. However, this appears to be wrong.
I recently managed to convince my friend to get a FW card and HD for expandability, especially since he wants to do video capture later on, and wants to buy a new iMac this December instead of his parents' 1Ghz Gateway machine which has never been stable running WinME. So, we get the cheap FW card from CompUSA, plop it in, and as I am reading the installation manual for the hell of it and watch the screen recognize it... the beautiful term 'OHCI' pops up in both the manual and the screen.
CompUSA is selling this generic card using VIA's OHCI FW host controller. Since Apple really only supports 3rd party USB/FW cards using OHCI host controllers, this is great news. This means that you could very possibly plop one of these generic cards into your machine and have it work with 8.6 or later, even though they don't make a single mention of the Mac.
Interesting, eh?