Re: FireWire 800

From: F. Heitkamp <heitkamp_at_ameritech.net>
Date: Thu 12 Aug 2004 - 19:20:43 CEST
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0408121248400.2884@pc1.fred.org>

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Alex Malinovich wrote:

> Anyone have any suggestions on a good firewire 800 board to get for a
> linux box? I know that there's probably a list of supported cards for

I have one but the 2.6.x driver does not seem to work with it the last
time I tried.

Mine is made by "Bytec" a link is here:
http://www.nanosys1.com/fire-by-pci-800.html

> the driver like there is for regular firewire boards, but I haven't had
> the best luck with those boards. So I'm looking for actual brand name
> boards that people have personally used with success.

Good luck defining a "name brand". AFAIK they all have about the same
chips and are made in Tw.

>
> Also, and this is probably a silly question, is firewire 800 backward
> compatible with 400 devices?
>
The board I have has 2 800 and 1 400 port. The cable connector is
different.

Fred

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