PCI X Firewire 1394b

[imported_Loos1]

Hope someone can help me out. I'm more user than builder.. Need a PCI X 1394b Firewire 800 card for my Xeon machine to hopefully improve transfer rates of Compact Flash cards and an external harddrive. My machine does not have a normal PCI slot.

Anyone know a good reliable brand?

TIA,

-Jim.

 

[JPMNICK]

I do not think the 800 card will help with the CF transfers. CF is limited to a speed much below even firewire 400.

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: JPMNICK
I do not think the 800 card will help with the CF transfers. CF is limited to a speed much below even firewire 400.

True, plus the hard drive isn't really being bottlenecked much if at all by FireWire 400 either. IIRC you could drop a regular PCI card inot a PCI-X slot (assuming you mean PCI-X and not PCIe or PCI Express)

 

[imported_Loos1]

Okay, thank you for that. The cards transfer at 80x which they claim is 20 mbs so no effect there. USB 2 is 32 mbs right?? Why not an increase in speed at the harddrive though? It is a Lacie and Firewire 800 capable, so shouldn't the transfer rates improve? (by nearly double?)

llRC ??? Not sure what you mean. I have to go check right now on what the slot is exactly.. I thought it was PCI X, but it may be PCIe.

Thanks for the help...

Anyone care to quick explain 80x with respect to card speed?? Never did really get this measurement as in 8x DVD etc. 48x CDrom and so on.

 

[ribbon13]

If you PCI-X bus runs at 66MHz or faster make sure the PCI card can handle it. Otherwsie downclock your PCI-X bus to what the card can handle.

 

[imported_Loos1]

Well, it looks like this is my configuration.

one PCI Express x16 graphics slot

one PCI Express x4 slot don't know what its for

one PCI 2.2 slot (5v, 32 bit) this is the old kind right? It's blocked by the graphics card and is not usable.

3 PCI-X slots This is where I thought the Firewire 800 card would go.

Lastly, it says AT 4.2" x 11" PCI and One at 4.2" x 9"

Any help appreciated...its mostly greek to me. Thanks all, this is a great site, just don't get here often.

-Jim.

 

[ribbon13]

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=15-104-703&depa=0

The best firewire card money can buy

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: ribbon13
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=15-104-703&depa=0

The best firewire card money can buy

Read the review, Mac OS X 10.2.3 required for FireWire 800 operation.

 

[imported_Loos1]

Looks fine. So it will go in one of the PCI-X slots, right??

Sorry so noobie, just don't see where it says that. A normal PCI card will not go in a PCI-X slot right???

 

[ribbon13]

No Firewire 800 card will work with windows if you go by why the reviwer had a problem.

http://www.rme-audio.com/english/techinfo/fw800sp2.htm

 

[MDE]

nm

 

[ribbon13]

A normal pci card can go into a pci-x slot
the card i linked was a native pci-x 64-bit/66mhz card

 

[ribbon13]

Firewire 800 will work in windows if you do your homework.

The guy on newegg was just a dumbass.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/885222/en-us

 

[imported_Loos1]

MDE, then what card for PCI-X on Win XP? Can you help there?

BTW, I have a regular PCI Firewire 800 card (bought it from Lacie when I bought the external harddrive) Trouble is, I'm afraid to use it in one of the PCI-X slots. I had a Dell dual 3.6 Xeon machine burn up right after installing it in one of the PCI-X slots. It worked once though transferring from the external drive. Then poof...the machine stopped working the first day I got it. Dell gave me another one, but now I don't want to put that card in, so thought I would buy a new one.

Really appreciate your taking time to help.

 

[imported_Loos1]

I'll check out the MSFT link. I'm the dumbass...lol

 

[ribbon13]

PCI is 32bits 33mhz (32 X 33 million in bits per second) bandwidth limited to 127mbps to all device on at bus.
PCI-X running 64-bit 66MHz would be 4 times that.

 

[imported_Loos1]

Thanks for the links ribbon13, can see I need to do some homework.

 

[Dubb]

Originally posted by: ribbon13
No Firewire 800 card will work with windows if you go by why the reviwer had a problem.

http://www.rme-audio.com/english/techinfo/fw800sp2.htm

Gotta love the folks at RME. this once again demostrates why, IMHO, RME is one of the best tech company ever. Those guys never do anything without having their Sh!t together first. When they developed their first laptop interface, they posted reviews of dozens of different laptops, how well they worked, what the problems were, and how to fix it, if you could.

Other companies need to look to them for guidece on professional practice.

/pats hamerfall DSP gently.

:thumbsup: for those kickass germans