[LAU] RME multiface pcmcia with pci adapter

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 12:00 +0000,
linux-audio-user-request at lists.linuxaudio.org wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:44:27 +0100
> From: Emiliano Grilli <emiliano.grilli at gmail.com>
> Subject: [LAU] RME multiface pcmcia with pci adapter
> To: ML-LAU <linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org>
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> 
> Hello,
> 
> I just scored a RME multiface I + cardbus card on ebay for a good
> price,
> and I was wondering if that can be used with a pci to pcmcia adapter
> like this one:
> 
> http://www.ebay.it/itm/CONVERTITORE-DA-PCI-A-PCMCIA-ADATTATORE-UMTS-GPRS-WIFI-USB-FIREWIRE-CARDBUS-TO-/260961645651?pt=Schede_PCI_I_O_controller_per_PC_e_Server&hash=item3cc286b453
> 
> Anyone has used this kind of setup?
> 
> Thank you in advance
> 

I don't have experiences with such a setup. I would avoid using an
adapter.
Perhaps you should search the web for latency and jitter.

I only read: http://www.rme-audio.de/forum/viewtopic.php?id=7521
They 're just talking about latency, not about jitter. An audio card is
just an IO card, but OTOH we expect precision from pro-audio IO cards.
Keeping in mind that even the combination of mobo, BIOS version and
mounted hardware can cause issues, IMO an adapter could make the
situation more critical.

There perhaps is more to read:

http://www.google.de/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=de&source=hp&q=pci+pcmcia
+adapter+card+latencies&pbx=1&oq=pci+pcmcia+adapter+card
+latencies&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=2178l7319l1l7498l21l18l0l3l3l1l182l2230l3.15l21l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=55c64d3a5dd0db77&biw=1152&bih=685

http://www.google.de/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=de&source=hp&q=pci+pcmcia
+adapter+card+jitter&pbx=1&oq=pci+pcmcia+adapter+card
+jitter&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=63588l64692l0l65172l7l7l0l0l0l0l144l912l0.7l7l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=55c64d3a5dd0db77&biw=1152&bih=685

IMO it's not a good idea. When I bought a RME card somebody from LAU or
LAD mentioned that I should keep in mind that even PCI might be dropped
soon. I reconsidered to get a PCI RME and bought a PCIe RME instead,
knowing that it wasn't and still isn't that good supported as PCI models
are.

spinymouse at oz:~$ hdspconf

HDSPConf 1.4 - Copyright (C) 2003 Thomas Charbonnel <thomas at undata.org>
This program comes WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
HDSPConf is free software, see the file copying for details

Looking for HDSP cards :
Card 0 : TerraTec EWX24/96 at 0xbf00, irq 20
Card 1 : TerraTec EWX24/96 at 0xbb00, irq 21
Card 2 : RME AIO S/N 0x579bcc at 0xfdef0000, irq 18
No Hammerfall DSP card found.

2 Cents,
Ralf