I'm using it for DV capture and also a 1394 hard drive. Both work fine for me. Once I even accidently disconnected my hard drive while reading data from it...I plugged it back in and it just kept going from where it left off!
Caleb Shay [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Kurt Lieber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 9:28 PM Subject: Re: how experimental is 1394 these days? > > > On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Kurt Lieber wrote: > > > Santa brought us a MiniDV camcorder for Christmas, and I'm interested in > > using linux to do some basic digital video editing (home videos, soccer > > games, stupid stuff like that) > > > > I know IEEE 1394 support is still experimental, but my question is, how > > experimental? Is anyone using it (especially for digital video > > capture/transfer) and, if so, how successful have you been? I don't mind a > > few application crashes, and even the occasional system crash but I'd like to > > avoid things along the lines of file corruption, kernel corruptions, etc. > > I was able to use 1394 sbp drivers to transfer all of the data from my > iPod to my hard drive, on Linux 2.4.17/powerpc. That was a pleasant > surprise. I haven't tried DV. > > -jwb > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
