On 9/28/05, *Paul Davis* &lt;paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com <mailto:paul@linuxaudiosystems.com>> wrote: is FW yes, its much better: vastly higher bandwidth, much faster bus clock. Theoretical(!) numbers are: FW-400 = 400MBits/s, USB2.0 = 480 MBits/s i'm not sure that its that hard anymore. kernel 2.6 seemed to have fixes ... --p As I see, you insist on RME :) Reasonable choice. More expensive, but bullet-proof. 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 these problems were solved? According to the list everybody went for Fireface now, so there's no feedback on modern cardbus setups. And even less on linux setups. Questions about FA-101 still remain :) More opinions / experiences are welcome :) Thank you. Dmitry.