I don't remember which one I bought. It was like 3 or 4 years ago. Just something cheap off of pricegrabber.com. I think it was $60. -ken ------------- On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 06:15:46PM -0800, Kim Cascone wrote: > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> > <html> > <head> > <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> > </head> > <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> > Ken Restivo wrote: > <blockquote cite="mid:20101201014408.GB3591@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" > type="cite"> > <pre wrap="">On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 09:38:09AM -0800, Kim Cascone wrote: > </pre> > <blockquote type="cite"> > <pre wrap="">Mark Knecht wrote: > </pre> > <blockquote type="cite"> > <pre wrap="">On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Kim Cascone <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";><kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx></a> wrote: > <SNIP> > > </pre> > <blockquote type="cite"> > <pre wrap="">2- my Dell laptop has a 4-pin firewire output and was wondering if there are > any issues with using a 4 pin cable for a 6 pin I/O other than not supplying > power? > I know I have to supply power to the box since a 4-pin 1394 connector > doesn't carry DC power. > > </pre> > </blockquote> > <pre wrap="">There should be no issues. The 6-pin connector is literally the 4-pin > connector signals (2 out, 2 in) with 2 power wires. There is no > difference in the IEEE-1394A specs for either connector and, in my > experience, the 4-pin has always worked for me. > > </pre> > </blockquote> > <pre wrap="">OK thanks for the info! :) > </pre> > <blockquote type="cite"> > <pre wrap="">The biggest issue with 1394 on Linux is the 1394 controller in the PC. > You might look around for evidence that your specific hardware (the > chip inside - not the laptop) is well supported. (I.e - TI is, others > vary) Stefan Richter in the 1394 user list is a great resource. lspci > is your friend. > > </pre> > </blockquote> > <pre wrap="">yeah I did a lspci and found: > > 09:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller > (rev 05) > > -- also -- > > sudo lshw | grep 1394 > description: FireWire (IEEE 1394) > product: R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller > configuration: driver=ohci1394 latency=32 maxlatency=4 > mingnt=2 module=ohci1394 > > </pre> > </blockquote> > <pre wrap=""><!----> > Ricoh chipets are, IIRC, the ones with extreme nonworkingness. Though it may depend on which rev, I dunno. > > I had one, and nothing worked. I had to get an ExpressCard with a TI chipset, and that one worked. > </pre> > </blockquote> > which ExpressCard I/O did you buy?<br> > <br> > </body> > </html> _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
