14 Jul
2011
14 Jul
'11
4:18 p.m.
Hello everyone,
I'm considering the opportunity to improve my home linux studio based
buying this laptop http://www.garlach44.eu/it/notebook-galway-15-pollici
(from a small italian company) with Ubuntu pre-installed (No Microsoft
licenses to pay!!).
This machine has an express card 54 slot.
I'd like to use a firewire sound card (echo audiofire 8) so i should buy
a firewire express card 54 adaptor.
Does anybody use it & could tell me if it works properly ?
Can you suggest me some models ?
Thanks in advance
Nicola
14 Jul
14 Jul
4:45 p.m.
On 07/14/2011 04:18 PM, Nicola wrote:
Hello everyone,
I'm considering the opportunity to improve my home linux studio based
buying this laptop http://www.garlach44.eu/it/notebook-galway-15-pollici
(from a small italian company) with Ubuntu pre-installed (No Microsoft
licenses to pay!!).
This machine has an express card 54 slot.
I'd like to use a firewire sound card (echo audiofire 8) so i should buy
a firewire express card 54 adaptor.
Does anybody use it & could tell me if it works properly ?
Can you suggest me some models ?
Thanks in advance
Nicola
Hello Nicola,
This should work ok. Safe bet would be to get something like this:
http://www.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=161398
Because afaik this one has a TI chipset. I use a cheap Sweex ExpressCard
myself with a Via VT6315 chipset and that works fine:
http://www.sweex.com/en/assortiment/connectivity/pc-cards/FW022/
ExpressCards are a bit iffy though, especially on stage, I would use
Gaffa tape to tape it to your notebook.
Best,
Jeremy
15 Jul
15 Jul
9:36 a.m.
Hi Nicola,
Nicola wrote:
Hello everyone,
I'm considering the opportunity to improve my home linux studio based
buying this laptop
http://www.garlach44.eu/it/notebook-galway-15-pollici (from a small
italian company) with Ubuntu pre-installed (No Microsoft licenses to
pay!!).
This machine has an express card 54 slot.
I'd like to use a firewire sound card (echo audiofire 8) so i should
buy a firewire express card 54 adaptor.
Does anybody use it & could tell me if it works properly ?
To get my FA 101 to work probably I eventually bought an expresscard
adaptor with a Texas Instruments (TI) chipset. The internal firewire
port of my hp notebook simply wouldn't work. A cheapo expresscard would
work but I was getting any number of xruns and zombifications even with
all of the RT voodoo.
It's not very easy to find out the chipset on these cards because it's
not usually advertised. I got mine in a store in Rome, if you like I can
give you the exact specs when I get back home (because the brand I got -
Digitus - has two models one with TI and one without).
Lorenzo.
Can you suggest me some models ?
Thanks in advance
Nicola
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