Ron, You sure have done your homework on this issue. That's great info to have. Thanks so much. It's much clearer now.
Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: Ron Phillips To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 12:45 AM Subject: Re: [AP] Noob I use two LaCie 2 terabyte drives with the triple interface (usb, firewireA and firewireB(800)). I originally tried using these with the built-in firewireA(400) on the computer. It would work fine until I would capture some video on firewire. Then the drives would drop out. The problem is that microsoft has a generic crippled driver for firewireA built in to its the XP code. (This crippled, reduced speed driver is documented on the mircosoft web site). When you use a drive and a video on the same driver the computer can't distinguish which is which. They did this so you wouldn't have to use outside drivers and could just plug right in. The solution some have used is to use a third party driver that patches the microsoft code out of the system and wedges itself in. You get a speed increase but there is still som conflicts with some drives. When you put in a firewireB(800) card, it has to use it's own driver which in most cases built into the card itself. This gives you a tremendous speed increase, and you can dedicate the old firewireA just for digital video. The firewireB standard is such that the 800 figure is very conservative. Usually you can get around 1 Gig. In fact in any practical situation you should have better throughput than a 1Gig ethernet connection. Nobody seems to have the firewire cards in the stores but I ordered mine through Staples on-line. It worked so well that I got a card for my laptop too, this time from CompUSA because thiers was cheaper at that time. Ron Phillips [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
