Any updates on 1394b driver

[ameliaw.azman]

Hi,

I came across with your group discussion on 1394b driver at "Firewire
1394b (800 Mbps) - where is the driver?, May2004". Does anyone has any
updates on this? Should I bought a 1394b application, could I get the
800M speed?

Cheers!

 

[GHalleck]

Hi,

I came across with your group discussion on 1394b driver at "Firewire
1394b (800 Mbps) - where is the driver?, May2004". Does anyone has any
updates on this? Should I bought a 1394b application, could I get the
800M speed?

Cheers!

Firewire at 800 Mbps is known as "Firewire 2". This capability
is, IIRC, hardware driven, i.e., by the chipset mounted on the
card.

 

[awa]

Hi,

Thanks a lot! I almost got confused with what I've read earlier.

 

[Jonny]

No where mentioned by replies was a driver mentioned. The problem was XP
SP2 backpedaling firewire to a slower speed. Most ide hard drives put in a
firewire enclosure can't throughput 1394B speed (800 Mbps). Its overkill
that you can't use in the real world. Kinda like the ATA 133 spec for ide
hard drive onboard cached data movement, and using a 32 bit PCI bus.
Exceeds the bus carrying capabilities.

 

[awa]

Thanks Johny... is it only for XP SP2 OS?

No where mentioned by replies was a driver mentioned. The problem was XP
SP2 backpedaling firewire to a slower speed. Most ide hard drives put in a
firewire enclosure can't throughput 1394B speed (800 Mbps). Its overkill
that you can't use in the real world. Kinda like the ATA 133 spec for ide
hard drive onboard cached data movement, and using a 32 bit PCI bus.
Exceeds the bus carrying capabilities.

 

[Jonny]

Hardware is hardware. Its aspects of speed capability don't change.
Backpedaling to 400speed in any version of XP is appropriate for this
hardware so it won't overcome any normally attached device.