FireStudio Project firewire crashing MacBookPro

[marcosz]

i've a 2.4 MBP running 10.4.9 and logic 8.

a few seconds after connecting the FSP,
the MBP often gets the creeping grey screen of death,
requiring a hard restart.

this has happened both when connecting the FW cable with the FSP powered up,
and with connecting the cable, *then* powering up the FSP.

i've seen allusions to bad FW chipsets in recent MBP's and iMacs.
EDIT: i've just seen other posts supporting this in your, and apple's, forums.
i'm forming a mob and marching to Cupertino...

also having the much reported, and little answered exclamation point FireControl issue.
FireControl seems to finally work after starting/quitting it 4 times.
hmm...

thanks,

[marcosz]

i just looked at my system.log and found:

FireWire (OHCI) TI ID 8025 built-in now active...

i guess that means i have the TI chipset, not the dreaded Agere.

well then... why am i having these problems with the FSP?

EDIT:
just checked panic.log and found this recurring:

panic(cpu 1 caller 0x003A4849): getPhysicalSegment() out of 32b range 0x12e7e1000, len 0x1000, class IOGeneralMemoryDescriptor
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)

...snip lines of hex...

0x47ee3fc8 : 0x19ad2c (0x0 0x0 0x10 0x0) Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0x0
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
PaeFireStudio(3.0.0)@0xac3000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily(2.5.7)@0x620000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily(1.6.0b7)@0xa49000
com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI(2.9.6)@0xb52000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.2)@0x661000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily(2.5.7)@0x620000
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily(2.5.7)@0x620000

[marcosz]

great news.
yesterday i was able to turn on the FSP without crashing the mac.

bad news.
today i turned on the FSP and the mac crashed.

panic(cpu 1 caller 0x003A4849): getPhysicalSegment() out of 32b range 0x109dd3000, len 0x1000, class IOGeneralMemoryDescriptor
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)

...snip hex...

0x482d3fc8 : 0x19ad2c (0x0 0x0 0x10 0x6eb9ae0) Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0x0
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
PaeFireStudio(3.0.0)@0x72f31000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily(2.5.7)@0x5ec8e000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily(1.6.0b7)@0x5f7ea000
com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI(2.9.6)@0x5ecea000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.2)@0x5840d000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily(2.5.7)@0x5ec8e000
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily(2.5.7)@0x5ec8e000

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.9.4: Thu May 17 18:04:27 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.20.12~1/RELEASE_I386

Model: MacBookPro3,1, BootROM MBP31.0070.B05, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.4 GHz, 4 GB
Graphics: GeForce 8600M GT, GeForce 8600M GT, PCIe, 256 MB
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 2 GB, DDR2 SDRAM, 667 MHz
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM1, 2 GB, DDR2 SDRAM, 667 MHz

...snip device list...

FireWire Device: FIRESTUDIO_PROJECT, PreSonus, Up to 400 Mb/sec