[sdiy] Should I repair my Fostex, or should I go HD recording?

[Rude 66]

hey peter,

 that's weird. i';ve had 4 or 5 firewire boxes here, and none of them said
that.. the only thing i can trhink of is that maybe it has to do with the
fact that most of them have external power supplies and they're afraid of
the power or something. i'm pretty sure if you turn your ps off, plug it in
and then turn it on, there's no damage to be done.. i've had boxes from
yamaha, prosonus, maudio and hercules here that were all perfectly
hot-pluggable.




----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Forrest" <pforrest at vemia.co.uk>
To: "JH." <jhaible at debitel.net>; "Rude 66" <rude66 at xs4all.nl>; "Peter
Grenader" <peter at buzzclick-music.com>; "john mahoney" <jmahoney at gate.net>;
"diy" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Should I repair my Fostex, or should I go HD recording?


> Hi Juergen!
> I think USB2.  I was pretty alarmed to have M-Audio emailing me to say
that
> I shouldn't ever hot-plug my Firewire 410, because doing so sometimes can
> result in significant damage to the 410 or the host computer.
> As far as I know, USB2 doesn't suffer from this gross flaw.
> Peter Forrest
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "JH." <jhaible at debitel.net>
> To: "Rude 66" <rude66 at xs4all.nl>; "Peter Grenader"
> <peter at buzzclick-music.com>; "john mahoney" <jmahoney at gate.net>; "diy"
> <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
> Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 8:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Should I repair my Fostex, or should I go HD
recording?
>
>
> >
> > ----- > btw if there's a choise between usb and firewire for digital
> > audio,
> >> definitely go for the last. only 1 or 2 boxes work at all for multiple
> > audio
> >> i/o with usb.. firewire has a much broader bandwidth and there are
plenty
> > of
> >> new cards coming out with reasonable pricetags..
> >
> > AS I have the choice (from the computer side at least) between
> > USB2 (much faster than USB1), Firewire and PCI, which should
> > I prefer?
> >
> > (I thought that PCI card with converters in a breakout box would be
> > 1st choice - is this right?)
> >
> > JH.
> >
> >
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