Digital BW, The Print

My vote is for the oxford 911 chip, which is a bit hard to find. They 
dont have it in any enclosure at Fry's or comp-usa, right now anyway. I 
have gotten them at Fry's in the past however.
I mainly know about the importance of the oxford 911 chip from my work 
as a musician. The oxford chip is FAR FAR FAR superior for recording 
audio. So much so, that other chips are almost not usable.  For 
instance, when setting the workstation to record sixteen live tracks, 
the Oxford chip does not hesitate, or cough, or suffer drop-outs. All 
the other chips first take up to TWO FULL MINUTES to start writing 
data. Then there is a pretty good chance that there will be drop-outs, 
or the drive will stop writing altogether for no apparent reason. In a 
four hour recording session, this might happen 4 times with a comp-usa 
no-name chip. It will never happen with a oxford 911 chip. I have had 
to hobble thru sessions like this a few times when clients bring in 
thier own firewire drive, or in mobile situations when I forgot my 
drive or power-supply and had to go out and get one from fry's or some 
other place close by.
It looks like the same problems are showing up in your photographic 
studio...... go out and ask for an enclosure with the oxford chip. They 
only cost like 10 bucks more. Very strange that so many companies sell 
those barely working chips in their enclosures, just to keep the price 
down by ten bucks.
Good luck....Dm
On Jul 25, 2005, at 11:01 AM, dfaprinting wrote:

> --- 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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