> It should work with any OHCI-compatible card - the chip designation of
Texas Instruments TSB12LVxx.
I’ll add my $0.02 worth. While I’ve never used windbg over 1394 I’ve
used many 1394 cards. I’ve never had any difficulty with any modern
OHCI compatible card (I’ve used cards with TI and VIA chipsets - no
difference). Our device uses a proprietary protocol so we should be
one of the first ones to be caught by any cheats. In the bad old days
I was caught by a couple. My rule of thumb was - if you have to load
manufacture supplied drivers to use the card then it has some
problems.
My current favorite the Addonics card because it is cheap and fairly
easy to get and (most importantly to me) has a power connector on the
card allowing it to supply 15W or power (a nice feature but no real
benefit for use with windbg).
Robert Newton
xxxxx@telusplanet.net
There are several cards that provide a power connection. Macally has
one that I use that also has 6 1394 ports. Drawing that much power from
the PCI bus is not wise nor good for stability. I wish all cards would
do this for 1394 and USB. Even 0.5 amp per port for USB can be a lot if
you have 8 USB ports. The 1394 has a problem in that the voltage is not
fixed, but allowed to be variable - probably not when running, but
different cards can output different voltages. Don’t know why they did
it that way, but it is interesting.
“Robert Newton” wrote in message
news:xxxxx@ntdev…
> > It should work with any OHCI-compatible card - the chip
designation of
> > Texas Instruments TSB12LVxx.
>
> I’ll add my $0.02 worth. While I’ve never used windbg over 1394 I’ve
> used many 1394 cards. I’ve never had any difficulty with any modern
> OHCI compatible card (I’ve used cards with TI and VIA chipsets - no
> difference). Our device uses a proprietary protocol so we should be
> one of the first ones to be caught by any cheats. In the bad old days
> I was caught by a couple. My rule of thumb was - if you have to load
> manufacture supplied drivers to use the card then it has some
> problems.
>
> My current favorite the Addonics card because it is cheap and fairly
> easy to get and (most importantly to me) has a power connector on the
> card allowing it to supply 15W or power (a nice feature but no real
> benefit for use with windbg).
>
> Robert Newton
> xxxxx@telusplanet.net
>
>