Your statement is wrong. We still support 'old' G5 machines for all products. But we will not write a driver for a brand-new product to fit in an outdated and unique machine (the only one ever with PPC and PCIe slots). And BTW, this had never been announced to be supported.

This is strage, as a RME-reseller I had allready 5 users asking for the PPC-driver for the HDSPe_MADI-card in one week... (incl Hegbert) (Only in Belgium)

Actually, Carsten....this statement is not entirely correct. I am an owner of a Quad 2.5 gHz G5 PPC. It is equipped with PCIe slots only. No PCI or PCIx. All PCIe's.

I have to ask...how hard would it be to hack up a driver for the PPC PCIe equipped machines? Isn't PCIe PCIe? Regardless of the host CPU?

As a longtime owner of an HDSP-9652 (which is still happily thriving in a Dual 2.0 G5 PPC in my studio) I too, was disappointed when I tried to equip my 2nd machine (the above mentioned Quad 2.5 G5 PPC) with an HDSPe card and DigiFace combo. I can't tell you how miserable I was to discover to find out, after it arrived, that it wouldn't work on my G5's PCIe slot.

I had to send it back for a refund and settle for a @#$%^ MOTU 424e/2408mk3 combo. I found myself in a situation I had never been in before in my entire professional career....reluctantly returning gear for a refund.

By all that is holy....if you make a driver that works, I will publish a video on You Tube of me smashing that MOTU crackle-junk into dust with a sledge hammer. It would be criminal to try and resell it to some other unsuspecting newbie. Better off destroyed.

I'm pleading with you...please take a shot at generating a PPC PCIe driver. There really has to be more than 30 of us out here.

Great...after I sent all the stuff back. I wish someone at Synthax looked into this a little more dilligently before authorizing the return.

I'd seriously love to try this. I just don't want to take a hit on the price of the gear if it doesn't work.

If it works....hello You Tube. Hello Mr. Sledgehammer.

OK....what do I need to do to get the ball rolling?

Works for me. I can wait. Although I should like to point out that by now, anyone with a PCIe equipped PPC G5, probably doesn't own the card and I/O...meaning you may have to loan one out the gear to someone to test. Surely there must be someone in your neck of the woods that has a one of these machines willing to let you run some tests on?

Oh, you'd like to see that.

Gee....I wish this had been done months ago. I'm gonna have to beg off and wait for the HDSP9652e solution before I go out and rent a sledgehammer for your amusement. An HDSP9652PCIe card had always been my first choice anyway. All of this waiting for over a year nonsense forced the MOTU solution on me in the first place. (You know, you could offer to subsidize the video . )

I guess if I waited this long,  I can wait a little longer. Now just to make sure, Mathias, your company IS making a PCIe replacement for the 9652? I have seen other postings on this forum intimating that this product is in development and will be released before the years end. Is this true or not?