macbook/macbook pro buffer problems, solution

[therecordinghouse]

i am starting to see mention of people having success with using and express card 34 adapter in there computers, as opposed to the stock apple firewire/usb. is it possible that apple just has a bad design/setup with these ports sharing resources? i am probably going to get a card and try this. it is worth it. my system works, most of the time. that, however, just is not good enough. if this works, i am going to petition apple to reinburse me for the card.. (like that will happen) lol this is the card i am looking at. suits me as i have both a 002r, and an mbox 2


http://www.techonweb.com/products/pr...aspx?id=C75987

[therecordinghouse]

just a follow up. i have been running my 002r off my macbook pro firewire port, and 2 firewire drives off this card. my buffer problems have virtually disappeared. my mbox 2 seems to work better with the firewire drives running of the express card as well. is there just some sort of bottleneck somewhere with the macbook pro's resource management?

[tha k man]

It's always been better to run drives off PCMCIA firewire cards in the past - and it's the same with the express card slot.If you've got one...may as well use it.