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

[Peter Forrest]

One of the reasons I bought it was because of Firewire's supposed 
hot-plugability.
Is it just the M-Audio 410 that has had this problem? That certainly wasnt 
the implication from M-Audio's email.  If it had been, I'd have tried 
getting my money back!
Peter
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Zacherl" <sdiy-mz01 at bluemole.com>
To: "Peter Forrest" <pforrest at vemia.co.uk>
Cc: "diy" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Should I repair my Fostex, or should I go HD recording?


> 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.
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> 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
>> ----- 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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