david wrote: > On 04/15/2014 11:46 PM, Clemens Ladisch wrote: >> david wrote: >>> there's no Windows 7 device driver for his Firewire PC Card adapter. >> >> All FireWire controllers use the same driver interface (OHCI), and that >> driver ships with Windows. >> >> If there is a problem, it is with the PC Card controller driver. > > Hmm, no, that's not what Windows 7 said about his Firewire PC card > device. It said he needed to get and install a driver for it. Internally, there's more than one device involved, and the actual FireWire controller is only the last one. What particular device did Windows complain about? >>> So I thought, maybe a Firewire<->USB adaptor would work. >> >> These are completely different protocols; they cannot be mapped to each >> other. > > Yet there are a bunch of connectors that appear to do that, although > probably not reliable enough for serious use. There is partial degree of reliability. Either the port has been constructed to be a FireWire port with a USB jack (where the adapter just maps the pins back), or it doesn't work at all. >>> Unfair: There's an Apple Thunderbolt to FireWire Adapter! >> >> Thunderbolt is just a PCIe bus. > > Then why not a Firewire<>ESATA adaptor? Because SATA is a completely different protocol. This could work only with FireWire hard disks. Regards, Clemens _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
