Re: REM Firefire 800 or Metric Halo Mobile I/O 2882

Forget about RME and new Apple laptops. Apple shifted over to Agere
FW chipsets in laptops manufactued since 11/1/08 (IIRC), and they are
nightmares for audio. RME says "not compatible". It's a problem
with many interfaces, not just RME, but RME is the only one to come
out and say "This is not up to us to solve", which is just them
stating the truth. Haven't found any info of the sort on the MOTU
site, though I can vouch for people with Agere FW and MOTU hardware
ready to trash them all.

Here's their forum: http://rme-audio.de/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1475&p=1

"Our examination of the problem showed that the Agere chip causes the
Firefaces to issue a FireWire bus reset shortly after start of data
transmission (isochronous mode). We tried a Motu 828 for comparison
and found this to be affected as well (everything seemed to work, but
playback did not start).

Therefore we have to declare this chip and all related products as
incompatible, and expect a fix (if any) from Agere's side, by either
firmware or driver updates."

So this has been an issue since November and Apple is still silent on
it )go to Apple discussions and search Agere under the MBP section)

Also Google Agere Apple and limit the search to the past 3 months.

My understanding is that Metric Halo boxes are not affected. But that
still
l leaves you needing to get software.
.