I had the interface side of one of my generic TI based 1394 controllers go out -- W2K device manager said everything was fine, plugging in a 1394 CD burner shutdown the burner's powersupply. Burner worked fine on another system. Pulled the TI based ADS Pyro 1394 controler from my 1.4G Via based Athelon to get the burner up where it needed to be and went shopping this weekend for a replacement.
No TI based boards instock except for the SIG which lacks the internal 1394 port which I need. So I took a chance on a Via based 1394 controller since it had the internal port, 2 external 6-pin and an exteranl 4-pin. Since I've a ton of 4-6 cables, and only hook external 1394 drives to this system since its Via based motherboard can't import or export DV without glitching a couple of times per hour I thought I'd give it a try.
Happy to report that I hammered the 1394 hard drives without problems. Did a quick DV import/export test, same couple of glitches per hour. So I may stop my knee-jerk warning about VIA 1394 controllers since at least one revision now seems to work correctly (or at least as good as a TI based 1394 controller on this Via MB).
Used the W2K builtin Via 1394 OHCI drivers. The CD that came with it when straight to the trash having Ulead VS4 "bundled".
--wally.
No TI based boards instock except for the SIG which lacks the internal 1394 port which I need. So I took a chance on a Via based 1394 controller since it had the internal port, 2 external 6-pin and an exteranl 4-pin. Since I've a ton of 4-6 cables, and only hook external 1394 drives to this system since its Via based motherboard can't import or export DV without glitching a couple of times per hour I thought I'd give it a try.
Happy to report that I hammered the 1394 hard drives without problems. Did a quick DV import/export test, same couple of glitches per hour. So I may stop my knee-jerk warning about VIA 1394 controllers since at least one revision now seems to work correctly (or at least as good as a TI based 1394 controller on this Via MB).
Used the W2K builtin Via 1394 OHCI drivers. The CD that came with it when straight to the trash having Ulead VS4 "bundled".
--wally.
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