Digi002 on same firewire port as external drive?

[cschreppel]

Hey everyone,

I just picked up a Dual 1.42 GHz G4 - 1GB RAM - 120 GB internal drive. I'm currently running OS 10.4.3 along with PT 6.9.2cs4.

When I was working off of my Powerbook, I had my OWC 200 GB external drive connected to its firewire port and connected my Digi002 to the OWC.

Now that I have two firewire 400 ports on my PowerMac G4, I connected the 002 and OWC drive to separate ports. However, when I run a session from my external drive, I get an error saying that the firewire bus is too full (-6085 I think). When I remove the Digi002 from the PowerMac's 2nd Firewire 400 port and daisy chain it from the OWC drive and run the session there, it runs fine.

Also, when I copy the session folder to my internal drive (with the OWC still mounted) and run the session from my internal drive with both the 002 and OWC connected to separate ports, the session runs fine. It just seems to be that when I attempt to run a session from my OWC drive and both the drive and Digi002 are connected to separate firewire ports is when I run into trouble.

Any thoughts on this? Fixes?

Thanks,
Corey

[Slim Shady]

That G4 has Firewire 800 ports on it right? From the Compato Docs:

FireWire Drives and Power Mac G4 "FW800" Models

The following problem exists with the Digi 002 & Digi 002 Rack and the 2003 Power Mac G4 "FW800" models with FireWire 800 ports:

Recording with the Digi 002 or 002 Rack to a FireWire drive connected to any of the 3 built-in Firewire ports on these computers can result in -6085 errors.
On these computers, Digidesign recommends using a dedicated internal ATA/IDE drive for recording.
The use of a Third Party FireWire PCI card is necessary with FW800 machines with Digi 002 or 002 Rack if the user wishes to either record to or boot from an external FireWire drive. If using FireWire drives with Digi 002 or 002 Rack & the 2003 Power Mac G4 FW800 models, a FireWire PCI adapter card must be used.
This problem only occurs on the 2003 Power Mac G4 FW800 desktop models. All other supported computers can use FireWire drives connected to the built-in FireWire ports.

[cschreppel]

Yep. That's it. Just read that before you posted.

Thanks.