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when will 1394 become standard?

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benjamit

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i'm having to give cheap 1394 pci cards to people i want to connect to since they don't have any 1394 ports on their mobos and don't use any perifs that use firewire thus they are in no hurry to get a firewire add on card🙁:disgust:
 
1394 has been a IEEE Standard for several years. It is not new. I have a 2 year old laptop and it has a 1394 port. It is very common on new machines of all makes. But if you mean "standard equipment" is in floppy drive or IDE - probably never on a universal basis - except for Macs.
 
Don't count on it very soon. I suppose you'll see more headers on mobos allowing you to link up yourself, but until its in the chipset, it won't be cheap. Besides, everyone is on this USB2.0 bandwagon, thinking only 1 of the 2 technologies will survive. Any reason you can't just switch yourself to another interface? It seems like it would match your friends better 🙂
 
well they only have usb 1.1 so for me to use my usb 2 i would still have to get them to buy usb 2 cards or i get them usb 2 cards

i transfer a few gigs at a time when i see them and a usb drive is too slow

plus usb bogs their machines down since they are usually d/l, burning and watching movies at the same time on their machines
 
My newest computer has both USB2.0 and Firewire...I'm finding that most upscale boards (asus/abit/etc) have them now
 
should be standard by Q1 or Q2 next year...if u've been keeping an eye on chipset roadmaps, pretty much all of them should have native firewire support by then...it's only a matter of mobo manufacturers implementing it on their boards...i hope they do

after all, how much is it to stick a firewire port on if the southbridge natively supports it?

all SIS chipsets currently have it and the latest nFarce does too...
 
Originally posted by: zzzz
why cant you just use ethernet for transfering files?
Click to expand...

Firewire is 400Mbps compared to 100 for ethernet, and it supports networking, so why not use it if you have the opportunity.
 
Not to answer the question really but... I think FireWire would have been king a long time ago if the PC folks who decide what we want (without asking us) had pulled their heads out and just given Apple credit (and money, but they run after us for ours so why not spend some of their own on something that we might actually want to give them money for in return) for creating a very good, powerfull and flexible interface that they currently cant beat. But oh no it allways has to be done "the PC way" and thus we end up with USB2 ages after we all could have had FireWire.

I'll go and rant somewhere else now...
 
hmm,, is there a way to connect 1394 and ethernet and etc. together on a lan? is there a hub that would do such? or could u just connect it to a computer that has all these?
 
IMO, IEEE 1394 (aka FireWire... aka iLink) will never be a "PC standard"... it'll always be more geared toward Entertainment things such as digital camcorders, set top DVD players, HDTVs, etc.
 
jema - I agree with ya.

As for when it becomes standard, well put it this way. If it's built into the southbridge and your competitors are including it, who's not going to include 1394? Like nortexoid said, it's already in a few and will be in all relatively soon.

I finally bit the bullet and ordered two firewire cards this morning with the intention of using them for networking my two computers to start with (they're side by side, distance not a problem, why blow more money on new ethernet?) and then they'll be ready when I pick up an external drive. Figuring my future motherboards will have both so it better become standard 🙂
 


since we are talking about networking here now

gigabit eithernet is not that expensive now, about the same cost as 10/100 not the long ago

and i would use gigabit ethernet for transfering if they made external hdd enclosures that comes with it

the problem with eithernet is that you need a computer to use it

but even faster than firewire or gigabit ethernet is hot swap scsi hdd or even mobile hdd racks for ide
 
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