Re: Prolific IDE/1394 bridge does not work

On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 09:29:38PM -0800, Adam Lang wrote:
> 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 could transfer about 1.5G of data under Windows/OS X/Knoppix. I did
not try to read the whole disk, though.
>
> 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.)

There is not much choice in these devices around here. There are
probably one or two other types available.

But I chose this one because it was known to work with both OS X and
Windows so it is unlikely the two systems would support the same bug.
 
Since the enclosure can be connected through USB on faster machines the
firewire part is only critical on Macs and older machines.

If there were some tests of this kind of hardware with Linux it would be
much easier. But I usually find that the stuff sold in the parts of the
world where people test it is at least slightly different in
appearence/revision number,...

Thanks

Michal Suchanek

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