Originally posted by rooster Sorry Kestral, I have to say what you said about USB was pretty off the mark. WinXP SP2 will deliver firewire info at 400mbs and USB 2.0 will do 480mbs. This means USB is actually faster in this case.
If you run WinXP SP1, you will get firewire speeds of 800mbs and USB 2.0 at 480mbs, FWIW, but you will have to hunt the SP1 package down.
(FWIW, I run a Mackie Oynx with firewire interface and it works great, very little latency, on a P4, WinXP SP1 equipped. Looking back, having run into some XP issues and a bad firewire PCI card, I would probably reconsider the Edirol or similar USB 2.0 piece. Yeah, I would, but I do like the Mackie product and people.)
Anyway, like it or not, gay or not, USB ain't going away anytime soon in the PC world.
Umm... actually, it sounds like you have a problem with your firewire driver. Another example of SP2's brilliance. The firewire port you're running (if you're actually getting those speeds in SP1) is a Firewire 800 or 1394b port, thus the higher rate. Somehow SP2 must be screwing up the driver. Standard firewire will never go past 400mbs. That being said, firewire's just more reliable plus daisy-chaining is invaluable.
