On 10/28/2010 03:41 PM, Arnold Krille wrote: > Hi, > > On Thursday 28 October 2010 13:10:00 rosea.grammostola wrote: >> Having a ricoh firewire chipset here on a thinkpad t61. Not the best one >> afaik.. > > This depends. There are Ricoh chipsets that work (even better with the quirks > of current kernels) and there are chipsets that don't work. > >> Should I go for a usb (edirol for example) or firewire interface? > > This also depends: > > Do you want more then stereo-in-stereo-out? If yes, firewire is a sane > solution. > > Do you want the ability to connect more then one devices, even if its only at > a later point? If yes, firewire is the only feasible solution. USB doesn't > really provide any synchronization or even synchronous data-transfer. > > Which devices share the interrupts? If your firewire chip (built in or via > pccard) has its own interrupt while the usb ports share their interrupt with > each other and also with disk/wireless/screen, you will have better luck with > firewire. > > (One advantage of usb is that it always has 5V which devices can use to run > and to create phantom power. Firewire in laptops is either 5-pin without +12V > or needs an extra power-adaptor to provide the +12V to power external devices > and provide phantom power.) > > Have fun, > > Arnold > And what about this recent discussion on USB soundcards (http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2010-September/072419.html)? Or was that specifically about the EHCI implementation? Best, Jeremy _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
