Greetings,

I apologize for cross posting a few different lists. I've not found any previous discussion about this in the archive. Would anyone care to relate experience/advice regarding the reliability of a PCI->firewire adapter for multichannel audio (in win and linux)? I realize the 828 does not have a wide user base in the Linux community, but a few new firewire devices will be available soon. I'm being cautious because I've had a few motherboards with poor PCI reliability in general.

I plan to build a new system soon, probably dual Athlon MP. Can anyone recommend a motherboard which actually has a built-in firewire port for either the Intel or AMD architectures? Is there a significant increase in latency, when bringing firewire into the PCI bus compared with a built-in 1394 port? Does it seem to slow the data stream to disk?

Thanks much for your replies,

Michael Berkowski berk0081@tc.umn.edu