28 Sep
2005
28 Sep
'05
11:46 a.m.
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 17:32 +0400, Dmitry Baikov wrote:
i have ENE controllers in my two HP laptops, as do a couple of other
people on LAD. there *were* problems with these in the 2.4 kernel
series, but they were fixable from user-space *and* are gone in 2.6
(AFAICT).
if you were in the US, i could offer you the best prices on RME gear
(i'm a dealer), but with a european location, thats not likely.
--p
yes, its much better: vastly higher bandwidth, much faster bus
clock.
Theoretical(!) numbers are: FW-400 = 400MBits/s, USB2.0 = 480 MBits/s
thats not a very fair comparison. USB2.0 is the "new USB", FW800 is the
"new FW" :) but FW is also a better protocol, which means its easier to
get close the theoretical maximum than it is with USB.
From reading
RME mailing lists, I know there were many problems with
Ricoh controllers (on PCI
bursts). And everybody recommends TI. But
most notebooks to choose from have Ricoh controllers. Do you know if