Re: Firewire on new iPods?

In article <morenuf-31DB0F.14484427122005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
morenuf <morenuf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In article <m23bkemj7e.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, shamino@xxxxxxxxxx (David C.)
> wrote:
>
> > Gregory Weston writes:
> > > morenuf wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Good luck finding a USB 2.0 PCI card that allows SLEEP.
> > >
> > > Belkin makes one that seems to be working fine in my wife's machine
> > > and mine (although mine also has USB 2 on the board, so that may have
> > > an impact).
> > >
> > > I believe it's the F5U220.
> >
> > I'm also using an F5U220 (in a QuickSilver-2002 PowerMac G4). Sleep
> > seems to work fine for me.
> >
> > At least it sleeps when I push the power button. (The power-usage meter
> > on my UPS drops to almost nothing when the computer goes to sleep, so I
> > think it's safe to assume that it really is asleep.)
> >
> > -- David
>
> Wish I'd known about the Belkin card F5U220 if it works as you say.
>
> My IOGear GIC251 PCI USB 2.0 card does SLEEP/WAKE if nothing is
> connected to it. It also works fine but does not SLEEP/WAKE correctly if
> anything remains connected to it. All this in a 2002 G4 Quicksilver
> desktop running Tiger 10.4.2.

The machines I've seen the card in are a 2nd-wave G5 (dual 1.8) and a
MDD G4. Both machines are slept fairly often, and both have devices
pretty much permanently plugged into the USB cards. The cards were added
during the 10.3.x era and both machines are kept current (now on 10.4.3).

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