Connecting external HD & soundcard to PCMCIA FW card...

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Long title I know, but I need a bit of help. One of my firewire cables went bad here recently so I picked up a PCMCIA firewire adapter for my soundcard & an external HD. I've always just recorded to my internal laptop drive because I do mostly location recording and it works great. With that said I wanted to try recording/editing from my external HD. When I plugged both devices into the PCMCIA card and tried working with a project on the external drive I got artifacts everytime the disk was reading. My guess is that there's not enough throughput on that bus to handle both devices. Both my internal and external HD are 7200rpm, 1gb 553mhz DDR2 ram, PentM 1.73.

I've got another Firewire port that I was going to put the external drive on and just have the soundcard on the PCMCIA port, but I'm down a cable right now so I haven't tried it.

Does it sound like a throughput problem to you guys?
 
Is there TexasInstruments chips in that Firewire card??

I know my Motu828mkII demands TI chips and I've heard that many other audio devices are best behaved with TI chip'ed Firewire cards....

(I made sure the Gateway laptop I bought used TI Firewire chips and have had ZERO problems with my 828mkII and Glyph Firewire drive...)
 
yep, firewire card is TI chipset, atleast on my internal 9300 FW port. I'm not sure about the PCMCIA card, what chipset it is. Either way both ports to the same thing, crackle when the external HD is reading data. Mind you I've only tried to edit audio right now, but I figured it would do the same if the disk was trying to write as well.

So do you run your Glyph and your 828 on a single FW port? How are those two connected to your laptop?
 
I realize this is a ridiculously old thread - but I'm having exactly the same experience right now - Laptop, PCMCIA-Firewire card with a soundcard and a hard drive both plugged into it and I'm getting horrible artifacts - even when only recording a single track (which I *think* thoroughly rules out a throughput problem - seeing as how I can easily record 16 tracks simultaneously onto the laptop's hard drive).

Did you ever get this worked out? Anybody else have some insight?
 
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