On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 01:37:28PM -0500, Jesse Chappell wrote: >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 see. Being on different irqs is good. The Dell Inspiron 8600 puts nearly everything on irq 11 (*shudder*). >Yes, IBM is a bit strange with their (lack of) inclusion of FW >on most machines. They have it on their r-series. But if they have two cardbus slots, you can as well put a cardbus fw interface as you do. What kind of cardbus firewire interface do you use by the way ? Easy to setup in Linux :) ? regards, v
