Re: filmscanners: Canon Flatbed D2400UF

[Todd Radel]

> The speed of the PCI bus is at best 33Meg so unless the firewire socket is
> integrated on the motherboard there is an other possible bottleneck!

Eddie,

PCI is 33MHz: megahertz, not megabytes. Since PCI is a 32-bit bus, the
maximum transfer rate is actually 132MB/sec. And some higher-end machines
have 64-bit PCI slots, for 264MB/sec. In reality, other things often limit
the bandwidth (interrupt latency, etc.).

    -- Todd