On Sun, 2004-28-11 at 10:55 -0600, Ryan Gallagher wrote: > Anyway, to get to the point... isn't it true that firewire by virtue of > it's similar-to-USB-nature suffers from the same limitations as USB? > Iirc I was told that whatever limitations causing the (IMO) extreme > suckage of USB audio on linux will be present in a firewire interface. Firewire isn't very similar to USB /at all/, other than the fact that they're external busses that can be used to connect things to a computer. Look at some information about the architechture of each system, they're drastically different (Firewire being vastly superior in every single way, for the record) For one thing, Firewire doesn't require a host computer at all, whereas USB of course does. Firewire devices will figure out the layout of the firewire 'network' and establish appropriate master/slave relationships all by themselves, no computer needed. That should give an idea how similar they are. -- Dave Robillard <drobilla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
