| Hey guys, here's some new info for ya:
I've got a new 2008 Mac Pro 8 core. 16 gigs of (well tested) ram. Babied machine. Awesome, fast stuff.
Worked almost perfectly (running 10.5.2 with all updates) with few hiccups, until...
I plugged my Apogee Mini-Me Firewire edition into it.
The very second I did, Instant Kernel PANIC!
A.K.A. The Grey Curtain of Death. The big CRASH-O.
After rebooting, it sometimes worked for a bit, but the whole thing basically made the machine unstable and scary to use for any kind of creative work. Sometimes an audio program would work for a few minutes, sometimes it'd crash the machine immediately. Mostly it'd crash at some point during the workflow, or when waking up.
Went through hours of troubleshooting with AppleCare. Tried making new OS X accounts to look for software problems... removed all kinds of plist stuff (preferences)... even did a did a semi-fresh install (called an Archive & Install) back to 10.5.1. After a almost a whole day of troubleshooting work (reminiscent of debugging Windows 98)... and still: Deadly Kernel Panics GALORE. Ugh!
I also tried various solutions I've seen on the forums. I bought a firewire hard drive (a 1TB MyBook, which DOES work fine when used alone), and plugged my Apogee into that... the "firewire chaining" solution.
Nope. Nothing works. This particular Apogee and the Mac Pro don't agree at all.
My next move is to call Apogee themselves, even though this unit has proven itself reliable with other machines.
Ohyeah, and get this (this is the sad part):
I have the TI chipset! (it says something like TI firewire chipset 853 when I bootup in single user mode) That's the real bummer. It must be a support logic chip or something else that's getting in the way.
Whatever the real problem is, it's really bumming me out. Most other interfaces I've been considering are firewire, too. What's a creative to do? "Switch" to PC???!!! Geesh! |