Right now I have a SIG Firewire card in my current PC. Works fine but its very limiting hooking up camera/cable to the connector on the rear of the computer. I vowed my next computer would have a firewire port on the FRONT of the case.
Now that I'm computer shopping I realize I'm going to have to have a computer case with a firewire connector on the front but thats only the half of it.
Looks like some motherboards have onboard support for IEEE-1394. But I also remember that it needs to be OHCI compliant, correct?
One particular motherboard, the Asus - P4P800E Deluxe has a VIA firewire chipset. This is what I found on the VIA website.
"The VIA VT6307 is compliant with the latest IEEE 1394 standards with full 1394a P2000 support, and has an OHCI compliant programming interface with support for I2C EEPROMs and 4-Wire Serial ROMs. The VIA VT6307 has VIA and OHCI software driver support built into all recent Microsoft® Windows® operating systems."
OHCI software driver support? Is this going to work or not?
Sorry for the long post, please chime in if you have any experience with this or anything to add.
Mark
Now that I'm computer shopping I realize I'm going to have to have a computer case with a firewire connector on the front but thats only the half of it.
Looks like some motherboards have onboard support for IEEE-1394. But I also remember that it needs to be OHCI compliant, correct?
One particular motherboard, the Asus - P4P800E Deluxe has a VIA firewire chipset. This is what I found on the VIA website.
"The VIA VT6307 is compliant with the latest IEEE 1394 standards with full 1394a P2000 support, and has an OHCI compliant programming interface with support for I2C EEPROMs and 4-Wire Serial ROMs. The VIA VT6307 has VIA and OHCI software driver support built into all recent Microsoft® Windows® operating systems."
OHCI software driver support? Is this going to work or not?
Sorry for the long post, please chime in if you have any experience with this or anything to add.
Mark