Best Firewire card for Tascam FW-1884

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2007/11/04 14:55:33 (permalink)

Best Firewire card for Tascam FW-1884

I've finally taken the plunge and ordered the FW-1884.
I've downloaded all the latest firmware, the sonar driver, and the Tascam driver.
I have some questions:

1. Which Firewire card?
I bought the ADS PCI card, works flawlessly!
Bear in mind I have the MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum Mobo. PCI slots not PCI-e

2. WDM drivers or ASIO?

3. Will the FW co-habitat with my Echo Gina24 (WDM drivers there)?

I'm currently in the middle of a clean install of Win XP Pro, for the second time this
weekend; preparing for Sonar 7PE and the Tascam to arrive about mid-week.

Thanks to all in advance,
post edited by DeeringAmps - 2010/03/10 10:39:08

Tom Deering
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    RE: Best Firewire card for Tascam FW-1884 2007/11/04 15:00:55 (permalink)
    1. I'm using an Adaptec firewire card, and the most important thing is to have the Texas Instrument chipset.

    2. Runs fine on either, but I use WDM so I can run several music programs at the same time. Also, I sometimes have timing problems when using ASIO.

    3. Don't know this card, but it should be fine, and you would want to use WDM drivers if using both.



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    RE: Best Firewire card for Tascam FW-1884 2007/11/04 15:15:08 (permalink)
    riojazz,
    I had noticed that the TI Chipset was the one to use. Now FW400 or 800 does it matter?
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    RE: Best Firewire card for Tascam FW-1884 2007/11/04 17:43:45 (permalink)
    I'm sure 400. This unit is four years old or so, long before FW800.

    Note, there is a Microsoft patch for XP SP2, since SP2 slows down firewire devices to 100 and the patch restores it to 400.

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