P2 cards does sometimes not show on Desktop (USB/FireWire)

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Ciderboy

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OK guys, I hope you are just as happy as I am with the HPX500.

The camera is great, although we have not had much time learning it yet.

I have an issue with offloading my P2 cards.

My main editing computer is a G4 Dual running Tiger. It has FireWire400, 800, built-in USB and two extra PCI-cards, with both USB/FW400 and FW800 (the internal FW ports are dead).

Now to the problem: Using the HPX500 as 1394 device, I can manage to mount the cards. If not all of them shows up on Desktop, I mount the rest using Disk Utility.

But when I connect the HPX500 using it as USB device, nothing works. The USB PCI-card itself works fine (have tested with a USB memory stick).

And since the cards shows using FireWire, to me the drivers looks that they are properly installed?

Just to confuse things a bit more, the HPX500 works fine in BOTH USB and FireWire on our iBook G4 running Leopard. Go figure.

The last test is with my desktop mac mini, running Leopard. USB works fine, so does FireWire (but only after unplugging and re-plugging the cable).

Any ideas what might be the issue? Sure, you can switch between USB and FireWire, but the best would be to use either. I think USB2 is faster than FW400, too?
 
Drivers- if you want to use the G4 in this way it needs to be on Leopard with the latest OS X, QuickTime, FCP, etc.

Noah
 
Besides drivers, just forget about USB on the Mac for "fast stuff", though theoretically faster than FW400 you should only use it to connect your keyboard, mouse, printer etc.
Noah could probably give you the technical explanation, but for high transfer rates on a Mac for streaming or copying just go with FW or eSATA...
 
NoahK said:
Drivers- if you want to use the G4 in this way it needs to be on Leopard with the latest OS X, QuickTime, FCP, etc.

Noah
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Ah, no wonder both FireWire and USB works great on the iBook G4, that has Leopard on it.

(and if I'd slept on it, I might just figured that out myself. Thanks for the info!)

Better start thinking if I should upgrade the old G4 Dual to Leopard then. But, since I got FireWire to work, then so be it.
 
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The manual flatly states that USB is "not guaranteed" to work on a Mac. I'd say don't even try it. Stick to 1394 Device mode when using MacOS.
 
Barry_Green said:
The manual flatly states that USB is "not guaranteed" to work on a Mac. I'd say don't even try it. Stick to 1394 Device mode when using MacOS.
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Even though I've been reading the paragraphs about connecting to external devices at least 5 or 6 times this morning, I missed that out...

Just everyone, from the demo salesperson to virtually every reseller I talked to said that USB would work just fine.

I did even go and buy myself a PCI USB/FW400 card for the G4. Well, the FW400 ports are still good for my old LaCie d2, and the HPX500 of course. The FW800 would be for my new d2 disks.


:dankk2:
 
I have PC desktop and my HVX 200 won't offload or be sen by my computer using USB. I tried to install the drivers from the camera by hooking it up--I dunno I don't think it wirked. What do I di to offload my p2 to this desktop?
 
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