Re: [H] Vista FireWire support

[maccrawj]

FW depot is a reseller, Oxford is a chipset manufacturer, the bridge board is likely 
made by a 3rd party. Since FWD does not manufacture they have nothing to do with 
the driver and likely lack even an educated TS department, hence the simpleton response.


Bottom line is that like the USB mass storage driver, 1394 *device support* is a 
generic Windows driver and should support any standards compliant device chipset. 
Having a driver for the 1394 host controller in the PC is another matter entirely, 
since your 1394 is working now obviously you have that.


That said bridge boards are not cheap @ ~$50 just to run 2 PATA devices inside your 
PC. Looked into it briefly since my Asus Rampage has only a single PATA controller 
and instead opted to downstream the drive  replace it with a new SATA.


For FW, Oxford is one of the better chipsets with 911+ being 400Mb  912 being 800Mb. 
There is also Initio which are former Adaptec people which I hear is good but have 
never used.


James Maki wrote:

I am looking at a firewire-to-ide bridge board at FireWire Depot;

http://fwdepot.com/thestore/product_info.php/products_id/1643

In the description, it states that it Support Win98SE, ME, 2K, XP, Linux,
FreeBSDS and MAC OS 8.6 or higher. No mention of Vista. I wrote customer
support asking about Vista x64 support and received the following cryptic
(at least to me) message in return: 


only microsoft writes driver for vista so you would need to check to see if
microsoft is publishing a vista firewire driver for oxford 911+ chip set

I find it strange that the manufacturer would not already know this
information. I am running two external cases with the oxforde 911 and 911+
chipset and it works. I just want to bring the drives (two IDE dvd drives)
into a case. Anyone see a problem I am missing? I am just a bit put off by
the lack of a definitive answer from the manufacturer on this subject.

Thanks for you input.

Jim Maki
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [H] Vista FireWire support

[James Maki]

Thank you so much for the reply and info. Still not sure I want to spend the
money (actually $69.95). My motherboard also has only a single PATA
controller and onboard firewire, so looking at this as an option. And since
I just noticed that FireWire Depot is going out of business at the end of
the month, I will not be buying from them!

Jim

 -Original Message-
 From: maccrawj
 Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 1:37 PM
 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
 Subject: Re: [H] Vista FireWire support
 
 FW depot is a reseller, Oxford is a chipset manufacturer, the 
 bridge board is likely made by a 3rd party. Since FWD does 
 not manufacture they have nothing to do with the driver and 
 likely lack even an educated TS department, hence the 
 simpleton response.

[H] Vista FireWire support

[James Maki]

I am looking at a firewire-to-ide bridge board at FireWire Depot;

http://fwdepot.com/thestore/product_info.php/products_id/1643

In the description, it states that it Support Win98SE, ME, 2K, XP, Linux,
FreeBSDS and MAC OS 8.6 or higher. No mention of Vista. I wrote customer
support asking about Vista x64 support and received the following cryptic
(at least to me) message in return: 

only microsoft writes driver for vista so you would need to check to see if
microsoft is publishing a vista firewire driver for oxford 911+ chip set

I find it strange that the manufacturer would not already know this
information. I am running two external cases with the oxforde 911 and 911+
chipset and it works. I just want to bring the drives (two IDE dvd drives)
into a case. Anyone see a problem I am missing? I am just a bit put off by
the lack of a definitive answer from the manufacturer on this subject.

Thanks for you input.

Jim Maki
[EMAIL PROTECTED]