[Ed Douglas]

I didn’t catch a response to the kernel panic question.
My Mbox2 Pro / FireWire drivers were giving me all sorts of grief until I splurged on an Apollo 8duo. I achieved a “somewhat” stable system for a while once I determined that ANY change on the FireWire bus that the Mbox 2 Pro was running on would cause a kernel panic. I used the Mbox with the power supply and a TB to FireWire adapter as the only device on that chain, while ensuring that any other drives were accessed via a different TB port using a different controller. I also set my drives to NOT spin down/dismount and that was workable for a time. After realizing that Avid would never update the FW driver moving forward, I decided to ditch their interface hardware for a 3rd party and have never looked back. I guess I should dig up the old Mbox 2Pro and see if I can still get few bucks for it.

Hope this is relevant to you in any way.

Cheers!