Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "John Moody" 
<moodymz3@y...> wrote:
> 
> FWIW, my external drives are plugged directly into an ASUS A7N8X-
Deluxe
> motherboard, which has an onboard Realtek 8801B 1394 PHY.

Not the best chip in the land of firewire. You might want to disable 
that chip and try an Adaptec PCI card, it might reduce your problems. 
I believe Apple still uses an Agere (sp?) chip on their machines, and 
the Lucent chips have never given me problems when a good enclosure 
is used, chips from Texas Instruments are normally pretty good until 
you start chaining other devices on the end. I'm not so sure about 
the Initio chips, or the other one that I have blocked from my 
memory... And as I said, the enclosures with the Oxford chip have 
given my the fewest problems, across several different machines and 
host chips, with best performance on the computer with the Lucent 
chip.

Yes there is a lot of incompatibilities across some of these chip 
combinations, and sometimes they don't show up until you put an 
additional device in the chain.