I purchased a Sonnet Tempo from Amazon for $54.98. I wanted the card due to the fact that it has 2 Firewire 800 ports (and one 400).
As before, I also used the
lspci -v command in Debian to make sure the card showed up and was available and active. Sure enough we are good to go with the card using the firewire_ohci kernel driver.0001:10:13.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB82AA2 IEEE-1394b Link Layer Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Device 0ee4:3884
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 16, IRQ 53
Memory at 80083000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Memory at 80088000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: firewire_ohci
This is not to be confused with the onboard firewire device of which shows up as using an LSI Corporation controller and chipset versus the TI one this card utilizes as seen above.
Great. A quick check using System Report in OS X Leopard shows the card successfully appears there as well.
So there you have it. Additional Firewire 400 and 800 connectivity. Yay. Up next, is the much more exciting transition to Ultra ATA connected SSDs. From there, we will move straight to a SATA controller and SATA SSDs (Specifically used for the boot drives of each respective OS. I will store my precious data on more reliable drives both internally and externally).
P.S. With each of these upgrades, I have grown more fond of the G4 QS. I will keep this baby going as long as I possibly can. Also, I am pumped at having Core Player installed as it plays back even higher quality 720p video (Mr. Robot Season 1) on my current measly ATI Radeon card that came as the stock graphics card for these systems flawlessly. Impressive!
