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Firewire 400 PCIe Card for 5,1 ???
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With 5 Firewire 800 ports, in theory 9-6 pin firewire cables should suit you fine.
For best compatibility, look for a TI chipset.
For best compatibility, look for a TI chipset.
That. Any FireWire PCIe card with a Texas Instruments chipset will work.
A FW800 to FW400 cable, however, should do the trick, too. That's not an adaptor. It's just that FW400 uses fewer lanes than FW800.
Yeah, there's only two 800 ports on the rear, and I don't want cables hanging off the front of my machine (In a recording studio)
I opted to grab an adapter for ONE peripheral I still need around, and the rest I am upgrading out of and going different routes.
Thanx for the input tho
I opted to grab an adapter for ONE peripheral I still need around, and the rest I am upgrading out of and going different routes.
Thanx for the input tho
I just put this FW400 PCIe card in my 5,1. http://www.sonnettech.com/product/allegrofw400pcie.html
So far it works good and picked up my old FW400 drive right away. I knew I could buy an adapter or new cable, but I figured since the open PCIe bay is there I might as well use it and gain 3 FW400 ports. I still need to try out my old MIniDV camera.
On a side note, I think Apple should have still included at least one FW400 port on the Mac Pro, or at least included an adapter with the computer like they do with the keyboard extension cable. Many people still use FW400. I think they went a bit overkill on having four FW800 ports.
So far it works good and picked up my old FW400 drive right away. I knew I could buy an adapter or new cable, but I figured since the open PCIe bay is there I might as well use it and gain 3 FW400 ports. I still need to try out my old MIniDV camera.
On a side note, I think Apple should have still included at least one FW400 port on the Mac Pro, or at least included an adapter with the computer like they do with the keyboard extension cable. Many people still use FW400. I think they went a bit overkill on having four FW800 ports.
The OP mentioned he needed dedicated bandwidth for one of his devices, hence an expansion card. A lot of pro audio gear is like that, actually. Also, I've dealt with older Canon video cameras that for whatever reason (I cannot explain) refuse to work on FW800 ports with adapters.