What firewire cards and/or chipsets are recommended for use with Duende on a PC?
In general, Duende should work with most FW chipsets and PCI FW host controller cards.
We have only encountered issues with a very limited number of FW host controller cards.
These are the firewire cards and chips that we have tested and can recommend for use with Duende on a PC
Tested Firewire host controllers:
– Dell AFW-2100 (agere L-FW323-06) (comes standard with many DELL machines)
– Belkin 3-port firewire card F5U503;
– SIIG Firewire 2-port PCIe featuring Texas Instruments XIO2200 chip
– DAWI Control DC-FW800 PCI Firewire 800 Controller (When using Windows SP2, please make sure you have the FW800 hotfix installed)
– Adaptec Fireconnect 4300
– Adaptec Fireconnect 8300
Tested Firewire chipsets: (check the onboard controller on your mother board.
– VIA VT6306 PCI
– Texas Instruments 5BA63VW TSB43AB23
– Agere L-FW323-06
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