[Firewire-users] 711 and 712 chipsets

[Brian Zammit]

On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 23:49, Manish Singh wrote:

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> > code will work. Is there a list of chipsets this _should_ work for, or
> > hardware it is verified to work with?
> 
> I haven't had a chance to do up a known good list yet. Oxford 911 disk
> chipsets work. Some maxtor's are known to work. Typically USB/Firewire
> combo drives do *not* work.
> 
> PPA makes a firewire-only disk enclosure which we've been using with
> success. There's another brand whose name escapes me at the moment, I'll
> look it up tomorrow.


Thanks. This will help greatly to see at least a couple of brand options
that are know to work. Justifying a test setup, even for just a few
hundred dollars, is easier when the hardware is know to work :)


> 
> The firewire cards also matter. Ironically, the PPA branded pcmcia cards
> do not work. Most PCI addon cards work, though there was one someone had
> that gave a strange error. I don't have brand info on these. For laptops,
> cards made by SIIG and Orange Micro are known to work.


This is good to know, thanks.

Brian


> 
> -Manish
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