[MacDV] Re: FireWire (was: Hard drive for iBook video editing)

[Mark M. Florida]

Well, since they were the absolute first Mac with built-in FireWire, 
then maybe the FireWire controllers on that motherboard were just a 
little immature.  I would think the solution to flakey FireWire on a BW 
G3 would be to add a newer FireWire controller via a PCI card.  There 
are plenty of good, inexpensive FireWire cards on the market today.

Just a thought.

- Mark

On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 12:40 PM, Thubten Kunga wrote:

> B/W G3 were the FIRST and ONLY Mac to have 1394 FireWire — Not AMONG. 
> No other model had it until the September '99 G4 towers. That's when 
> the short lived B/W G3 was EOL after only 9 months of "existence". I 
> bought my 450 B/W in June '99. Wish I had waited 3 more months.
>
> k
>
> On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 07:23  AM, Michael Winter wrote:
>
>> Also the B/W G3 are supposedly notorious for their flakey Firewire 
>> support, given that they were among the first to have it.
>