Re: Prolific IDE/1394 bridge does not work

In my experience, unless you're incredibly lucky, you won't be happy
even if you do get this thing working.

I spent a good two weeks playing with it, and eventually, with some
combination of settings that I don't even recall now, managed to get it
to format and recognize the drive. However, it would fail as soon as I
started sending large amounts of data over the bus... the entire
machine would freeze up with a variety of errors.

I moved over to a 911 chipset and everything became a thousand times
easier. It's more than 99% reliable with the 2.6 kernel I'm currently
using, although I'm still very skittish about kernel upgrades.

I really would recommend just giving up on the Prolific box, or using
it with a Mac. (My Prolific box works just fine with my Macs.)

--Adam Lang

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