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For anyone with a thunderbolt Mac, the thunderbolt to firewire adapter is available online at the Apple store. For whatever reason, local pickup was not an option.

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD464 ... er%3Dapple

Getting a "Page not found".

buzzsmith wrote:Getting a "Page not found".

Yep, the shortest product life of any Apple product, ever. BTW, these adapters all seem to require Lion or Mountain Lion. I'm still annoyed that Apple shipped Snow Leo machines with TB ports, but never really supported the ports until now.

OK - try this: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD464ZM/A

NazRat wrote:OK - try this: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD464ZM/A

No dice, either. Naz, are you in the U.S? Is this item not available State side?

I've been getting bum links to this cable all day:

I'm in the US, though close to the border and have successfully placed an order.

NazRat wrote:I'm in the US, though close to the border and have successfully placed an order.

You must have bought the only one! Is it true it won't work with Snow Leo?

When it finally comes on line for the rest of youse guys, here's the product codes so you don't think I'm BS'ing you. (or maybe the Apple store is being spooffed)


Part Number

UPC or EAN No.: 885909561278
Mfr. Part Number: MD464

No BS from Naz, perhaps a lot from Apple.

cuttime wrote:You must have bought the only one! Is it true it won't work with Snow Leo?

In the compatibility section it says OS X v10.7.4 or later.

I received the shipping notice this morning and it's coming from China. Is this Apple's standard these days?

Aug 2, 2012 3:50 PM
In transit
LANTAU ISLAND HK
Aug 2, 2012 2:37 PM
Left FedEx origin facility
SHENZHEN CN
Aug 1, 2012 11:00 PM
Shipment information sent to FedEx
Aug 2, 2012 10:36 AM
Picked up
SHENZHEN CN

NazRat wrote:OK - try this: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD464ZM/A

Link works for me. I am 2 miles away from the Cupertino mother ship.

"Easily connect your Thunderbolt-equipped Mac to a FireWire device with the Apple Thunderbolt to FireWire Adapter. Small and compact, it connects to the Thunderbolt port on your Mac computer, giving you a FireWire 800 port that supplies up to 7W for bus-powered peripherals like hard drives and audio devices."

$29

Hopefully other little elves are busy testing this (does the 27 inch Apple TB display require Lion 10.7.4 or higher?)
http://www.kvraudio.com/news/metric-hal ... ions-18300

TB Firewire adapter for new ultrabooks (and Macbook Air). Is it a TI chipset?
http://www.1394ta.org/press/TAPress/2012_0709.html

My thoughts are why does an adapter require any OS? It's just an adapter. Am I lost in 10.68 land?

rhythm_kitchen wrote:TB Firewire adapter for new ultrabooks (and Macbook Air). Is it a TI chipset?

I'm running it on a mini and I booted (BootCamp) into Win7 to see what chipset is reported and if it worked dual boot. It's reported as LSI 1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller, has its own FW bus and works fine with both OS'. On the mini, the onboard adapter is TI, so for audio go with the onboard and for external drives go with the TB to FW adapter. I have a sample drive, two backup drives and a CD/DVD burner on the adapter - 828mk3 solo on the internal. This also freed up a couple of USB ports for me.

Edit: On the Mac side in the system log the FW adapter shows up as Lucent ID 5901 PCI whereas the mini onboard is TI. In System Info the firewire provided by the adapter is listed as a PCI card.

Hopefully other little elves are busy testing this (does the 27 inch Apple TB display require Lion 10.7.4 or higher?)

It requires 10.6.4 - the OS that ships with the 2011 iMac restore disk. Apple was selling iMacs, PBs, Minis and TB displays for nearly a year before Lion was released.

Other TB functionality may require a newer OS, I don't know.