I know it has only 3 weeks but there was some chatter about an apple update to come.  Do any of the insides know if apple is working on a fix for the fw problem.  I need my mojo back... and soon.  I promise to quit asking when it gets fixed.

I just had a wonderful idea, what about an Avid loaner program, every Mojo owner gets a mojo dx until the fw bug is fixed.. what do you think?

max

Max - we'll all "quit asking when it gets fixed." 

Don't have any real answers for you, but the word on the street is that OS 10.5.5 does not fix the firewire bug that plagues us Mojo users. And evidently it's not really Avid's fault -- Aja users are screwed too. Apple seems a little uninterested.

In the meantime, I was really missing my Mojo and finally went through the somewhat painful yet effective steps to back-rev my new Harpertown Mac Pro to run on Tiger. Now my Mojo is back, cooking with gas. Have you explored getting that Macbook Pro you've got to run on 10.4.11? -- even if it means booting your system off a firewire drive? Could save you lots of grief and consternation.

Hi Funchdren,

I had just wipe my back-up drive clean (superduper) 2 weeks ago.  It was so painful re-installing all the side programs and finding lost keys durning the upgrade to 10.5.  Had I known that 3.0.1 for 10.4 was in the pipeline, I would of waited!!!  Never wipe a drive clean...ever...How is 3.0.1 working for you?  I am on a mbp  But back tracking might be my only hope!

Thanks

Max

It works great at this point. I must confess, I have not cut a large project with it yet because my main work is on a different Avid system at another company. But, FWIW, I did a back-rev on my machine for two reasons:

1. It did not seem like this problem was going to be addressed by Apple in the near future.

2. Everyone here seemed very impressed with 3.0.1 for Tiger. Snappy response and pretty stable.

Good luck.

I have the same problem about MAC PRO and Mojo... I lost my mojo 3 months ago because I couln´t downgrade to Tiger.... My ATI 2600 was not compatiple to OS X 4.11. When I installed MC... It didn´t open the software when appeared " OPEN GL" .... Every single day I am here looking for an answer for this... I already wrote to apple... BUT NOTHING ...It´s unbelieveble... 

tourne:

Every single day I am here looking for an answer for this... 

You may not get an answer soon. If I were you, I would look into getting your Mac Pro to run on Tiger -- then your Mojo will work perfectly, and you can thumb your nose at Apple while they drag their heels on fixing the firewire bug. Recipe for back-revving your Mac Pro is copied and pasted from an earlier thread below:

The specific recipe:
Find someone with a 2007 iMac, the one with the aluminum frame. Have them check that the install discs are version OS 10.4.10. Also confirm that the About this Mac / More Info says the graphic display is an ATI 2600 or 2400 (either is OK, the drivers are for the whole 2xxx line of chips; I used a 2400).

Connect your firewire drive to the iMac, erase and partition it to the GUID partition scheme, necessary for Intel startup drives, and run the OS 10 installer on the firewire drive. When done, run Software Update and accept all updates, except Quicktime.

Connect the firewire drive to the 2008 MacPro, make it the startup drive and restart. Confirm that About this Mac / More Info says the ATI 2600 says Core Image is “Hardware Accelerated" and Quartz Extreme is “Supported." After confirming that, use SuperDuper or CarbonCopyCloner and copy contents to the drive or partition in the MacPro that you would like to be the Tiger startup drive.

 Yeah, I am giving up from mojo on leopard... But I think I will must install all programs again...

But that´s what I am doing today... Yesterday I found someone with a I Mac 2007...

Thank u. 

tourne:

But I think I will must install all programs again...

Why not create a separate partition on your Mac Pro just for Tiger and Avid? Then you can leave Leopard and applications alone while you wait for the fix. If you don't have your internal hard drive partitioned already, you may have to do some cloning to a firewire drive to create it, or you could just find yourself an 80GB hard drive (cheap these days!) and stick it in one of the extra drive bays and put Tiger on there.

Good luck.

OK,So what about the FREE mojo DX loaner from avid until it is fixed....smile  I think it is the best idea until Apple works it out... anyone else?  We must put legs on this legless horse!

max

ps,  I have not once in 2 years regeted the switch over until this event, shame on Apple for closing out avid.  I may dust off the xw8000 and dis apple forever.  But that is just me.  I love mac hate windows but you must work with your vendors, f-u  apple for this.  On the bright side, apples stupidity might of saved me from buying the full macpro I planed next month.   The HP has a couple of more years left...maybe..smile

max

Can I assume from your system specs that you're running MC3 on Leopard with an analogue Mojo?

I just spent a couple of hours trying every permutation of connection and setting to get MC3 to run on my MacPro with the Mojo SDI and failled. Without the Mojo connected it worked fine - I even managed to capture digibeta at 1:1 without problems until I tried to play the timeline out through the Mojo...and I tried to install Tiger on a separate partition but OS10.5.4 won't even recognize another partition or the Tiger installer...unless Apple can send out someone to install a fully functioning copy of Tiger on the MacPro it's going back to Apple!