Vincent Touquet wrote on Fri, 09-Jan-2004: > On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 01:14:49PM -0500, Jesse Chappell wrote: > >I use the HDSP Cardbus/Multiface combination with a ThinkPad A31 > >with good success. Because the the A31 (base) does not have firewire > >(or USB2), I also use a cardbus firewire interface with an external > >drive. > > Do you record straight from the multiface onto this firewire drive ? > I was wondering if this would be feasible, as then the rme cardbus > card and the firewire card share resources, which could lead to > problems recording lots of tracks ? The two slots are independent, and the IRQs are different... so it shouldn't be any different than the same scenario with two different PCI cards in a desktop. I haven't stress-tested it completely yet (i don't know why i haven't yet...) but I haven't had any troubles using the FW drive as my audio drive with ardour, etc. > I'm curious as the T40p doesn't have firewire either. > It has USB 2.0 though. Yes, IBM is a bit strange with their (lack of) inclusion of FW on most machines. jlc
