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(More customer reviews)This is indeed the newer Allegro FW400A, and it is working perfectly in a new Dual 2.7 G5 Power Mac. I purchased this card to pamper a Firewire audio interface, which it does well, leaving my native Firewire ports for other things like hard drives, iPods, etc.
Installation was zero effort. Just open up the computer and pop it into an empty PCI slot. Mac OS X 10.4.1 requires no drivers. The ports simply show up as standard Firewire, not even some stepchild class sub-set, just Firewire. Can't ask for more.
But you do get a little more. My audio interface has many power options: Firewire bus power, portable battery power, or AC adapter. Since I was switching to a PCI solution, I thought I'd need to start using the AC adapter. But the Allegro FW400A supplies sufficient bus power to run a MOTU Traveler! I didn't even realize this until after I'd spent a day working with it, then noticed the AC adapter was still sitting in the box. I hadn't expected this since the card has no option to connect hard drive style power leads inside the computer. Apparently, this is not necessary, at least for certain devices. The audio interface seems perfectly happy. It continues to run without a single hitch at low latency (64 samples).
Highly recommended, especially when a good Firewire hub costs nearly twice as much, but your devices would still be sharing one bus.
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