sUGGESTION for good quality FIREWIRE /OHCI/iLINK cARD 1394

[ngurah]

I would to buy a firewire card, but confusing to choose it. I found Some have 2, some have 3, and some have 4 connectors.

Any suggestion for firewire spesification ? Some are recommended with TI chips...Any Idea ?

Thank you
Ngurah Agung
www.artinicottage.com

[Richard_G]

If you want to connect 4 Firewire devices at the same time, you'll need a card with 4 connectors. If you only want to connect a camcorder, you'll only need one connector and the others will be spare. TI chipset cards seem to have best compatibility.

[pchan]

Just avoid VIA chipset at all cost !

TI and NEC chipsets are good.

[dvas]

in my experience, I was not able to use NEC based FW1394 PCMCIA (see previous post). THe VIA based worked only for me wtih XM-2.

Sasha

[budz]

get a ADAPTEC FIREWIRE CARD which i have in all my pcs. i have no compatibility issues at all.

[GeorgeW]

ADS Tech sells excellent firewire cards...

[ngurah]

Thank' for the advice my friend

[turk690]

I've had experiences with FireWire cards, two had VIA chipsets (one built-in on an Abit motherboard, one PCI card), and two had TI chipsets (one built-in on a Gigabyte mobo, one ADSTech Pyro Pro PCI card). Of the three camcorders I tested (Sony D8 TRV-350 & TRV-950, and Panasonic NV-DS28), ALL the TI chipset-based FireWire detected and properly controlled them (w Premiere Pro); the built-in VIA on the Abit mobo flat out refused to detect/connect ANY of the camcorders, while the VIA PCI card detected the two Sonys but not the Panasonic and even then sometimes simply stopped capturing and other behaviours simply not present using the same test bed as with the ADSTech card. SO, whatever FireWire card that is, strive to get that with a Texas Instruments chipset.

[Phantom Of The Opera]

get a ADAPTEC FIREWIRE CARD which i have in all my pcs. i have no compatibility issues at all.

Same here, budz! Adaptec duoConnect (2 Firewire, 3 USB2 ports). It has worked perfectly for me from Day One.

(I run Win2K Pro).

[Skith]

Newer Sound Blaster (creative labs) Audigy sound cards have built in firewire ports. My sisters Panasonic GS-120 works flawlessly with my Audigy 2. Although I have heard of some issues with camcorders.

The firewire ports built into my Abit NFS-7 revision 2.0 (via chipset) also work flawlessly with the GS-120.

I usually ctransfer with DVIO from Camcorder -> Audigy 2 firewire port -> built in firewire (via) -> external 160GB HD, without any problems.