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

[Michael Zacherl]

But this seems to be a design flaw with the M410.
FireWire is considered being hotplugable and I'm swapping disk drives with my PowerBook being powered on all the time with no problems. 
  
        Michael.


Peter Forrest wrote:

> 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
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> <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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