Re: cable woe
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From: Carl K. <ca...@pe...> - 2011-12-19 22:31:10
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On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Stefan Richter <st...@s5...> wrote: > On Dec 19 Carl Karsten wrote: >> I have been using 2 cables to test with. both 4-6 >> #1 6' >> #2 15' >> >> I boot box, plug in #1, both ends are detected. >> try #2, no ends. >> try #1, both ends. >> try #2, no ends >> >> seems like a bad cable. >> so I plug #2 into a dv cam, cam gets fw2, dv plays in kino just fine. >> un plug cam, plug back into laptop, no ends. >> back into cam, dv2. >> back into laptop,no ends. > > Most DV devices are only S100 devices ( = support only 100 Mbit/s data > rate), some rare ones are S200, some S400 ( = support 100, 200, and 400 > Mbit/s). S100 is less demanding on cables; it is easily possible that a > badly built cable works without a glitch at S100 but fails miserably at > S400. Can the controller cards be told to back down? -- Carl K |