On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:14:14 +0200 Arnold Krille <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday 30 July 2009 09:50:01 [email protected] wrote: > > So if you need a power source anyway there's not much reason to use > > FW besides maybe being a little bit more flexible than with > > expresscard. > > Ever tried to connect several expresscard sounddevices at once? > > With firewire it is _really_ easy: just daisy-chain them together. > They are then even able to sample-sync all by the firewire-clock. > (All other technologies have to use external sync!) I would say this > counts as _a lot_ more flexible. Ok, I forgot about that possibility. With flexibility I meant that normal PCs might have a FW port whereas they most likely don't have Expresscard. > And its really not "look out for ricoh-chipsets" but "look out for > the broken ricoh-chipsets". There are ricohs that work extremely > well. (I know from my own expirience.) > > Have fun, > > Arnold The question here is: Which ones are the broken ones and which ones the good ones? I wouldn't know where to look for that info, do you? Thanks, Philipp _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
