Re: What 16chan sound card

["S. Massy" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 01:02:14PM -0400, Monty Montgomery wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 12:57 PM, S. Massy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 12:05:48PM -0400, Al Thompson wrote:
> >> I don't know of a 16x4 USB device right off hand.
> > Is that even possible? Even with USB 2.0, which might have shaky linux
> > support anyway... Possibly he should investigate other alternatives?
> 
> Easily possible in 2.0.  FTR, Linux's 'shakiness' in EHCI, as far as
> I'm aware, is only in the context of having a low-efficiency scheduler
> for hub transaction translation (ie, using 1.0 or 1.1 through a hub
> with an EHCI controller).
Good to know! I could have sworn that wasn't the case a year ago. So USB
2.0 cards offer an alternative to firewire cards on Linux?

Cheers,
S.M.
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