New MacBook Pros Released today??

[alex.the.forge]

firewire is hot plug able all the way, if not (if you damage something) something with the device is wrong.

maybe it's just m-audio then

[3phase]

The Snow Leopard drivers are just plain buggy. If you don't restart after connecting it, it can crash OSX, freeze up, refuse to respond to the volume knob. As long as I restart it's ok, but I use a laptop based system an I'm constantly grabbing it to take it elsewhere. It's like reboot central here if I'm trying to work on a project.

It's not a showstopper, just annoying. I haven't had issues like this in 7-8 years, usually all my computer gear talks nicely to each other

strange.. i dont have this problems.. but i choose my macbook because of the TI chipset...

[Tarekith]

This happened on my old MBP with the TI chipset too. There's quite a few of us on the RME forums with this issue, and they have admitted it a driver fault too.