[mythtv-users] Firewire 6200ch can't set port

[John Hoyt]

On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 5:43 AM John Hoyt <john.hoyt at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 2:08 PM DryHeat122 . <dryheat122 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> You mean on the STB or the MythTV machine?  I don't know the answer for
>>> either, but I had a firewire channel changer working on the MythTV box with
>>> the previous STB I had. The cable company made me change it >:-(
>>>
>>>
>>
> On your PC.  To find out run lspci to identify the firewire board then
> google it and you should be able to figure out the chipset.  In the past,
> some of the non-TI chipset boards would work only with select devices (and
> usually unreliably); my experience was that replacing them with a better
> TI-based PCI board worked almost every time.
>

If you do rule out everything else (and rule our that work current firewire
setup doesn't have a TI chipset), here's a board with TI chipset that I've
used multiple times with a high success rate:  SYBA SD-PEX30009.  It's
available at Amazon and probably a whole slew of other places.
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