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[PSUs]| Thursday 30th September 2004 |
FireWire Depot reports that the drivers installed by SP2 limit the performance of a FireWire 800, also known as IEEE 1394b, host controller (PCI card) and its connected devices to only 100Mbps (S100) speeds. As its name suggest, the stanbdard is designed to transfer data at up to 800Mbps.
It can have an indirect impact on Mac users when drives are formatted as FAT32 or NTFS, rather than the native Mac HFS formats, and moved between Mac and Windows systems. Mac users will still get full performance when connected to their FireWire ports, but Windows XP SP 2 users will notice a serious decrease in performance.
FireWire controller manufacturers Initio and Oxford have released firmware patches to overcome this problem, which should be available from your drive maker.
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