[mythtv-users] Firewire errors during recording

[Steven Adeff]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Stephen Otto <sotto at emsco.com> wrote:
> I'm far less doubtful.  I think upgrading to a newer release should be
> your first step.  There have been tons of firewire changes since the
> version you're running now.

nothing that should make a difference with this. I ran that kernel
with firewire and didn't notice it give me any issues. I'm not saying
there may be other benefits, and from that and perhaps a security
standpoint it may be beneficial to upgrade, I just doubt he'll notice
any difference in these ieee1394 issues

>>> What firewire chipset is on the firewire card you have?
>>
>> Not sure. The card is a Syba SD-LP-VT3F I got from Newegg. Details from
>> newegg says:
>
> None of those details answer the question, but based on the picture,
> it's a Via chipset.
>
> You can tell for sure on the command line by running this:
>
> lspci | grep FireWire
>
> On my system this prints:
>
> 03:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23
> IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
>
> It will probably identify a Via chip on yours.
>
> Eric

yes, it looks like all variants of that card use a VIA chipset, which
in my experience is your issue. Very few people have had good results
with the VIA firewire chipsets. If I were you I would look for a card
with a TI or NEC chipset.
I'm using this card,
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001MWHI00/
on my master and slave backend, which has a TI chipset and have had
excellent experience with it. My former backend motherboard which I
gave to my parents for their backend also has a TI chipset onboard and
I had excellent experience with it. Prior to that I had a motherboard
with an NEC chipset which replaced an even older board that I had
purchased a PCI firewire card that had a VIA chipset and worked fairly
inconsistently and was the cause for that motherboard upgrade....

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Steve
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