IF mkII Card Was working - now it is not

[Nickname Was Taken]

Is it possible that by connecting different Mac machine (with Catalina) to firewire Slot 1 card, and/while trying to install the mac driver to that Mac, that my dm 3200 firmware could get corrupted? My firmware version is 1.10 build 88685.

I had been using a 2008 macbook pro with Mavericks very successfully without any major STATUS issues, except the occasional Device Not Found, which 99% of the time disappeared with a reboot and proven on start sequence.

But after the events of the first paragraph, I cannot get the firewire connection on my Mac Book Pro made and it only reads No Cable. If I remove the cable and reconnect, I briefly get a Driver Offline few a second or two and then back to the No Cable.

 

[Fibcouple]

Worth checking the status of your firewire socket/cable. I Just got the same error & it happened after I was rewiring the some of the inputs at the back. I can see my FW400 socket seems to be broken. Machine makes a temporary connection (driver off line) when I fiddle with the pins & push the cable in. I have ordered a new connector & am soldering it tomorrow. Hopefully that is the issue.

 

[Fibcouple]

Update - No joy I'm afraid. Installed a new firewire connector but still same message - 'No Cable'.

When I plug the cable in there is a temporary 'Driver offline' message which disappears straightaway.

Tried a different cable on the Mac Pro. It is not working with another MacBook Pro from before (was working fine earlier) & tried with another MacBook after a fresh install with gatekeeper omitted.

OSX Mojave
Firmware 1.10 Build 88685
Firewire Version 1.30f10 (188754)

If anyone has any clever ideas please, please share as this is a bit of a disaster really - unable to record to Logic via the DM4800.

Cheers

Fib

 

[-mjk-]

Does it still make intermittent contact if you wiggle it? If the answer is "yes" I would break out the soldering gear again and touch up every pad on the entire board.

 

[Fibcouple]

Thanks for your reply. The momentary intermittent only says 'driver offline' rather than 'locked' etc.

 

[Fiber]

Have you pulled the cable while mixer/computer where connected? The transceiver chip is known to fry on FW equipment if you hotplug stuff. Otherwise indeed the connector.

 

[Fibcouple]

I didn't hot plug or anything but I was behind the mixer organising stuff prior to it failing so possibly...

I had to urgently get a RME PCIe ADAT card to keep working but hoping to get this fixed - sending it to Germany where these people say they can.

 

[Jerome Williams]

Could you possibly give me the contact information to Germany please? I have a card that needs repair also