StarTech.com 3-Port 1394b Firewire 800 PCI Card with Digital Video Editing Kit ( PCI1394B

Average customer rating: 1.0

I'd Return it if I Could

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StarTech.com 3-Port 1394b Firewire 800 PCI Card with Digital Video Editing Kit ( PCI1394B_3 )

Manufacturer: STARTECH.COM
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B00016W6PK

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Product Description

Get the new gold standard in high-speed I/O technology with an IEEE 1394b card from StarTech.com. With an unrivaled 800 Mbits/sec of data transfer, the two IEEE 1394b ports provide highly efficient, reliable communication over a length of up to 300 feet (100 m). The card also provides a 400 Mbits/sec IEEE 1394a port for your older FireWire peripherals. With cascaded hubs, the PCI1394B 3 can support up to 63 of the most demanding IEEE 1394b peripherals like portable hard drives, DV camcorders, digital cameras, CD-RW/DVD-ROM drives as well as many other FireWire devices. You'll be able to create your own high-speed digital media center right at your own desktop.

Customer Reviews:

I'd Return it if I Could.......2007-02-26

I purchased this to drive an M-Audio Firewire system. It worked for about a week, then went flakey. On reboots, it would look fine, but nothing plugged into it could be seen by their respective drivers. I must have rebooted the PC 20 times trying to figure out where the problem was. I reinstalled the driver at least 3 times, along with the drivers for the M-Audio device. The error I get on the M-Audio driver is #10, driver not started. Same happens when I attach a Sony Video camera--it can't be seen by the software. Clearly, something in the middle is broken.

M-Audio strongly advises users not to Hot Plug their products on Firewire, as it can kill one or both of the devices, even though the standard is explicitly designed for such hot plugging. Apparently, that is what happend. In all the experimenting, powering up the M-Audio after the boot was completed would at least trigger something, at least at first. I'd return it if I still had the box....

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