Digital BW, The Print

Thanks!  I’ll do that.

Best regards,
John Moody

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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
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Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 2:01 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Firewire drives

--- 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.





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