On 04/17/2014 02:40 AM, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
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?
I don't remember specifically now. That was well over a year ago.
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.
I noticed that most of the comments where they worked involved video
cameras or storage devices, not audio devices.
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.
Thanks. Didn't know SATA/ESATA was limited to storage devices; thought
it was more flexible.
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