Bob, I'm also using an Intel board which uses the same Intel G965 Express chip set. I have the micro ATX Intel DG965OTMKR. I have been using the onboard Firewire with the FA-66 for several months. It seems to work perfectly.
What would be the symptoms of a less than perfect Firewire port????? Mark NU6X -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Tracy Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 9:04 AM To: Neal Campbell; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] 5000 Beta testers: What firewire cards work? I just put my production FLEX5000 on the air this morning using an Intel DG965WHMKR motherboard with the TI Firewire chipset onboard. Seems to work fine. The rest of the system is an Intel Core2Duo E6600 @ 2.4 gHz and 2 mb of RAM. XP Pro SP2 is the o/s. CPU usage runs between 15% and 25%. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think the RX is even better than the SDR1K! The only minor problems I had getting up and running can be traced to my inability to read and follow instructions :>) 73, Bob K5KDN -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Neal Campbell Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 10:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] 5000 Beta testers: What firewire cards work? I think the key is the agere controller chip so a via is not the best choice (many of the embedded firewire ports are via chips). Anyway, if you have a firewire card, try it first, then order is the recommendation from Tim. I had some time on my hands so ordered it just to "stay active" while waiting ([plus I found some for close-out). I now see they were on closeout because they are discontinued. If you are looking for a new card, look for an agere controller chip! 73 Neal On 8/5/07, Larry Loen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FlexRadio KB Admin wrote: > > Please refer to the KB article on how to pick a Firewire host controller, > > Selecting High Performance Firewire Cards for FlexRadio Transceivers > > http://kb.flex-radio.com/article.aspx?id=10250 > > > > -Tim > > FRS KB Administrator > > > > That link in the article to the Syba product (first specific product) > appears to be obsolete as of this morning. I get an empty page. > > Worse, it's hard to figure out exactly what's going on here. > > Apparently, the part number has changed, too. > > What appears to be the same card is listed here: > > http://www.syba/com/Product/Info/Id/26 > > Note that there is _also_ an identical looking card based on the VIA > chipset. Now, the KB article frowns upon VIA. But, the card itself is > nearly identical (in fact, is visually identical until you see the big > VIA logo on the chipset itself -- the card shape and connectors are > virtually identical). > > I was halfway to ordering it from newegg.com before I looked closer. I > would rate Syba as confusing at the moment. Too bad, because they seem > to put out a lot of product. > > At the moment, I haven't found the proper product from Syba. > > > > Larry Wo0Z > > > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio mailing list > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ > FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ > > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
