hi again, it seems i had not much luck with my previous question... so i'm gonna try the digi design protools hardware directly on my notebook with ubuntu natty. So next week i'll go to my friend's place, but i need to know first how to convert a firewire input to a usb input. I mean, the sound hardware uses firewire, my notebook has not firewire input but only usb 2.0 inputs, so, would it be enough to use a firewire-to-usb cable to connect it? Or should i find another approach?
I'm not asking whether the computer will recognise the hardware or not, that was another question; I'd like to know if, in practical, the sound hardware is happy with a conversion cable or it needs a firewire input in the notebook side.
cheers.
firewire to usb
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Re: firewire to usb
I think what you want to do is impossible on several counts: You cannot interconnect firewire/usb, these are completely different buses/protocols. However, You can buy a firewire driver on cardbus if your notebook has a cardbus slot. Also I think there is virtually no chance a ProTools device will work in Linux. See the ffado website to check compatibility of firewire devices in linux.