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I thought all the white Intel iMacs where unproblematic with firewire audio interfaces. What FW-chip does *your* white iMac have?
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This is what I thought too. Mine has the Texas Instruments chipset that is supposed to be the good one. But I've heard that this isn't always necessarily true, because some people are using the aluminum imacs with the Agere chipset without issue. personally think the problem has more to do with software, the only constant seems to be OS tiger or leopard. While not all of these users are having problems, the ones reporting problems are all on some revision of one of these OS's.
My experience with an m-audio profire lightbridge was that it would not work on OS 10.4.10 through 10.5.3, the only exception being a clean install of OS 10.5.1. Once I installed Logic, I couldn't get it to work anymore. M-audio tech support told me it was a defective unit. I didn't bother to try a second unit after they told me that using the power supply can damage the unit, that's simply bad engineering.
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Are you planning to update the firmware in your TC interface or have you already done so?
More luck after the update?
I`m a bit in a dilemma: I want to buy one but of course it will have to work propoerly so I can make music.
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TC told me they thought the problem was that the firmware in the unit I bought was too old to work with the newer software on my computer. They said I wouldn't be able to fix this myself and should exchange it for a different unit. It's getting sent back to where I bought it and swapped out for a new unit, so I won't know if I just got a bad unit or if they just won't work with my computer until the new one shows up, hopefully this will be the middle of this week.
The one thing fishy about this, is the unit I bought was sold to me as new, but the box had clearly been opened. So I'm thinking I got a bad unit that someone else had returned. I'll let you know if I get it working.