[TriLUG] Firewire Cards on Linux

[Tom Bryan]

David McDowell wrote:
> I've used an Adaptec 3 port full height PCI 

Same here.  I bought whatever basic Adaptec firewire card Best Buy was 
carrying about a year ago.  Debian testing auto-detected it, and the 
card works fine.

>> Also, while I'm getting this mainly so I can pull video off of my
>> camcorder, 

Of course, I ran into trouble with dropped packets when I first tried 
doing that.  I ended up having to rearrange my disks to ensure good 
throughput from the camcorder.  See the list archives for more details 
if you run into similar problems.

---Tom