The header of the topic says it all really.
The story is I got asked to pull out a DV300 card from a system and send it out to someone in Az. Thing is the card is marked all over with Adaptec and the card itself says "Adaptec AHA-8945CP" The adaptec site has this card listed as a "host adapter [that] links both high-performance SCSI peripherals and 1394-enabled consumer electronics products to your computer using only one PCI slot". I told the films producer and he insisted it was not an Adaptec card but a Pinnacle miroDV DV300 and that the "dv300 combines a hi densisty scsi card with a dv card" and to send it out to the guy anyway. So either he is wrong or the printing anc chips all over the card are wrong.
Can anyone here with a Pinnacle DV300 card confirm this? That all Pinnacle did was to re-sell an Adaptec-8945 card and call it "DV300"? If you have a DV300 what does the actual card say?
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Ok so I found out the answer - I had no idea -
"miro bet on the wrong horse in the initial FireWire hardware race. They went with a company called Skipstone’s hardware and licensed the software DV CODEC (compression method) from Sony. Shortly before the DV100 was scheduled for release, Adaptec purchased Skipstone. The resulting merger left miro with a crippled product, that was not capable of output. Since then miro itself has been purchased by Pinnacle Systems. This time around the DV300 is the best of both worlds. It uses the already established AHA2940 hardware from Adaptec plus the already licensed Sony CODEC." (And in january 1998 they started using the AHA-8945 card)
The story is I got asked to pull out a DV300 card from a system and send it out to someone in Az. Thing is the card is marked all over with Adaptec and the card itself says "Adaptec AHA-8945CP" The adaptec site has this card listed as a "host adapter [that] links both high-performance SCSI peripherals and 1394-enabled consumer electronics products to your computer using only one PCI slot". I told the films producer and he insisted it was not an Adaptec card but a Pinnacle miroDV DV300 and that the "dv300 combines a hi densisty scsi card with a dv card" and to send it out to the guy anyway. So either he is wrong or the printing anc chips all over the card are wrong.
Can anyone here with a Pinnacle DV300 card confirm this? That all Pinnacle did was to re-sell an Adaptec-8945 card and call it "DV300"? If you have a DV300 what does the actual card say?
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Ok so I found out the answer - I had no idea -
"miro bet on the wrong horse in the initial FireWire hardware race. They went with a company called Skipstone’s hardware and licensed the software DV CODEC (compression method) from Sony. Shortly before the DV100 was scheduled for release, Adaptec purchased Skipstone. The resulting merger left miro with a crippled product, that was not capable of output. Since then miro itself has been purchased by Pinnacle Systems. This time around the DV300 is the best of both worlds. It uses the already established AHA2940 hardware from Adaptec plus the already licensed Sony CODEC." (And in january 1998 they started using the AHA-8945 card)