Where can I find very old (Tiger) drivers for 828mkII?

[HAMERMAN409]

I have a Powerbook G4 laptop that has OSX 10.4 (Tiger) on it. I will eventually update it to OSX 10.5 (the latest OSX that still supports PowerPC based products) but until then I would like to use my 828mkII with it. My used 828mkII didn't come with any driver CD's and the drivers on the MOTU site don't go back very far (even when you select "older versions"). Is there some place I can find these older drivers? Since this interface came out in 2004 or so I assume there must have been support for Tiger at some point.

[mikehalloran]

Whoa -- those older downloads all used to be there. I don't see them anymore. Could they have been taking up that much server space?

I used to keep an archive of those old drivers but it will take quite a bit of searching to see if I still have the ones you need. BTW, I will only have the FW versions; sometimes they were different for the USB.

I would contact MOTU support first and see if they can email or otherwise point you to a download link.

I have an old G4 that I keep with Tiger and OS 9 installed. I don't think I've installed the drivers for my 828mkII FW as I had a G5 when I was using it back then.

If MOTU has a link, please share. I have my original CD but am pretty sure that OS 10.2 is the latest driver set on that.

[HAMERMAN409]

Mike - I took your suggestion to contact MOTU customer service and emailed them asking for the latest driver that supports Tiger. I just heard back from them (at most 5 minutes after I submitted the email) with a link to the driver. Thanks again for the suggestion and kudos to MOTU for such a fast response.

[mikehalloran]

I'll do the same. I don't know that I will ever need to hook mine up to my G4 but it will be nice to know that I can if I need to.