Excellent job on the firewire support!

[Alexander Leidinger]

On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 21:04:53 +0100
Doug Rabson <dfr at nlsystems.com> wrote:

> > It would be nice to remove my Comtrol Rocketport serial card, and the
> > 8 serial cables leading across the middle of the room to my shelf of
> > machines and replace it with one firewire cable leading to a firewire
> > hub. But, as a firewire newbie, I have some questions:
> >
> > 1) Is any firewire PCI adapter just as good as any other in terms of
> >    performance, and FreeBSD support? (prices seem to range from $10
> > to $100)
> 
> Any should do about as well as any other. I probably wouldn't want to 
> spend more than ~$50 on one.

I got a 1394a one for ~19 EUR. It has two external connectors, and one
internal one (all 3 are 6pin connectors). Included was a cable with 6-6
(the large ones) connectors, and a cable with 6-4 connectors (thats one
side with large connectors and one side with small connectors). I only
used it with my DVD burner so far, but I can confirm the "it just works"
behavior. :-)

Bye,
Alexander.

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