iPod w/ PCI firewire?

chicochico
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
I have a G3 tower (biege) with a Orangemicro USB/Firewire card. Works great with iMovie & Firewire smart media reader. Anyone try a similar coniguration with an iPod? I hate to spend $400 on a toy & have it not work. Saving up for a new powerbook, but would love the iPod ASAP.

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  • Reply 1 of 5
    thinkingdifferentthinkingdifferent Posts: 1,604member
    It's my understanding that iTunes will only export music on Macs with builtin firewire ports. I would luv to add a firewire card to my beige G3 and connect to an iPod.
  • Reply 2 of 5
    bogiebogie Posts: 407member
    I actually read that it works fine as long as it the ports are powered. Can't find the link though.
  • Reply 3 of 5
    nebagakidnebagakid Posts: 2,692member
    i tried to daisy chain that wire to my cd burner, did not work. it needs to go directly to the mother board jaunxt <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" /> word :cool:
  • Reply 4 of 5
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    I'm using the Sonnet Tango USB/FireWire card with no problems...it charges the iPod just fine.
  • Reply 5 of 5
    crawlingparanoiacrawlingparanoia Posts: 443member
    Yeah, it just needs to be a powered firewire port.
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