No you cannot. The FLEX-5000 has to be powered up before Firewire signals will pass through it, which violates the requirement that you have both up and running at the same time.
Most Firewire cards (assuming you are not using a motherboard integrated Firewire interface) have multiple connections to the host bus controller (card) and you should use a separate one for each radio for the best performance. Also, even if it did work with both powered up, it is not preferable to do it because one of the devices on the Firewire chain would be designated as the master and would arbitrate access to the Firewire bus. This is applicable for other Firewire devices too, like hard drives; you do not want to daisy chain a FLEX-x000 through them. -Tim -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of richard allen Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 4:16 AM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: [FlexEdge] passive firewire chaining Dudley, Will I be able to physically connect the firewire to both my 3000 and 5000? I know I'll not be able to run the 3000 and 5000 simultaneously but I hope to be able to switch back and forth with no cable changes. Regards, Richard W5SXD _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software. _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software.
