combo firewire/usb card for older macs

[Florian]

are any of you 9600/9500 guys using one of these combo firewire/usb pci cards specifically for playback from firewire drives in protools or logic?
what are your experiences.
there's cards from orangemicro and also from sonnet and powerlogix that i have found. Any reports?
Thank You.

[CPettigrew]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by Florian:
are any of you 9600/9500 guys using one of these combo firewire/usb pci cards specifically for playback from firewire drives in protools or logic?
what are your experiences.
there's cards from orangemicro and also from sonnet and powerlogix that i have found. Any reports?
Thank You.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I have the Ratoc firewire/USB card in my 9600 (with Sonnet G3/500 processor). I run an OWC firewire drive with the DAM extensions. I half expected the whole thing to blow up. But it all works beautfully. Well past 24 in terms of track count (off the firewire) with lots of edits, but few if any plugs. I do not run digital video on this system (but do on my TiBook/Magma setup). But as a way to extend the life of my 9600 til the end of June, this has been for me an excellent solution.

-Craig

[bobo mark]

May i have the web link?? I tried Firewire direct USB/FW card and can't it work!

thanks

[Florian]

Thanks gentlemen,
anybody get more than 24 tracks on such a config?? where does it start to fall apart?