Firewire ports..T.I. or Ricoh

[tremojem]

I read that there can be issues with fire wire ports that are NOT Texas Instruments or use the T.I. drivers. This is very confusing to me. My Dell shows a Ricoh driver for my fire wire port. Is it possible to load a T.I. driver for that fire wire port? Is it possible that some of the issues I am having with Sonar are or can be attributed to the Ricoh driver?

Thanks

[JeffB]

I have no problem using a Ricoh FW port with my 828Mk2.

[joelg]

Most audio interface manufactures recommend using TI based firewire adapters. Note, this is not the "driver" this is the actual physical chip on your firewire adapter. Ricoh are usually hit or miss (mostly miss as far as I know), that would mean that if you're getting pops/clicks or dropouts in audio you will probably have to buy a firewire adapter with a TI chipset.

Joel