• AJA Video Systems

  IO with MacBook Pro and additional Firewire expresscard?

  Posted by Dave Martin on September 25, 2006 at 9:49 am

  Hi Guys

  I’ve been told that I need an additional expresscard 34 firewire card to run an io on my MacBook Pro. Is this true? I have firewire 800 and 400 on the laptop already?

  Thanks for any info…

  Tim Martin

  -MacBook Pro – 2.16GHz Intel Core Duo – 2 gig Ram

  -FCP Studio 5.1.1 – QT 7.1 – OSX 10.4.6 – Lacie D2 dv external drive – G-raid dv drive

  Dave Martin replied 19 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Ed Dooley

  September 25, 2006 at 3:09 pm

  Do a search, this has been discussed here. AJA says you can’t have anything else on the FW bus when the IO
  is being used because it uses all the FW bandwidth. The FW400 and 800 ports share the same single bus, so
  having 2 ports doesn’t mean 2 busses. If you have a camera or deck connected you may have problems.
  But if you search the posts you’ll find that some people are using it with other devices attached without
  problems.
  Ed
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  Dave Martin

  September 29, 2006 at 9:48 am

  Thanks Ed!

  I did a search and decided to buy an expresscard firewire…thanks again!

  Tim Martin

  -MacBook Pro – 2.16GHz Intel Core Duo – 2 gig Ram

  -FCP Studio 5.1.1 – QT 7.1 – OSX 10.4.6 – Lacie D2 dv external drive – G-raid dv drive

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