[Clay Stockwell]

It sounds like the firewire bus, or port connection, or cable (take your pick) on the DSR-11 is bad.

1) Have you tried a different cable?
2) Have you tried the DSR-11 on someone else’s computer?
3) Have you tried just jiggling the cable? (The DSR-11 cable connection on the back is notabley fragile.) Hopefully it’s just the cable…

[Clay Stockwell]

The dual-core G5’s, (not just dual processors) were the first models to have PCIe (express). The dual-processor machines preceded those with dual-core processors.

There were no quad 2.7 GHz. After the dual-processor 2.7 came out–and it was PCI-X–came the 2.5 GHz dual-core machines, up to the Quad (two processors or dual-core each) at 2.5 GHz. These dual-core machines were the first G5’s to have PCI Express (PCIe). The speed of the processors actually when down when the dual-core chips were released.

[Clay Stockwell]

I think this is the best I’ve found:

https://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/29266

https://www.belightsoft.com/products/disccover/overview.php

[Clay Stockwell]

My DSR-11 is always attached via Firewire and is generally off. If I know I’ll be using it, I turn it on before starting FCP. I turn it off after I’m done with it and have quite FCP. I’ve never had a crash or kernel panic related to using it this way.