Firewire audio interface for Winos XP SP2?

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"Toggle" <toggle@yah00.com> wrote in message
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> Is there a currently available Firewire audio interface tha has
> drivers compatible with Windows XP SP2? I have a Presonus FireStation
> that I bought last year, which quits working once SP2 is installed.
> Presonus was of no help at all and informed me that the FireStation
> has been discontinued. They were unclear over whether or not their new
> FirePOD would work with SP2. I'm looking for alternatives. I'm very
> disappointed in having spent $700 for a product that is obsolete after
> one year.

Lots of stuff isn't working with Service Pack 2. My Digi002R did strange
things with SP2 installed. Even if you switch to another manufacturer,
there's not guarantee (at least for now) that their stuff is going to work
any better with SP2. Can you uninstall it? That's what I did.

Stu Venable

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In article <u2n9j017vbjcvcj7g6mdh9auvep0ftog0n@4ax.com> toggle@yah00.com writes:

> Is there a currently available Firewire audio interface tha has
> drivers compatible with Windows XP SP2?

That was fast. What's different about SP2? Strange that drivers no
longer work. Did you try to re-install them?

> Presonus was of no help at all and informed me that the FireStation
> has been discontinued.

That didn't even last two years, did it? What's up with these
companies?

> They were unclear over whether or not their new
> FirePOD would work with SP2.

I'll bet that they're surprised that the Firestation didn't work.

> disappointed in having spent $700 for a product that is obsolete after
> one year.

You should have bought some analog gear 25 years ago. You'd have spend
$100,000 but it still wouldn't be obsolete if you have the right kind
of projects.


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In article <899Zc.7720$%w2.7057@newssvr23.news.prodigy.com> me@kentkingery.com writes:

> There seem to be several problems reported with 1394 devices and SP2. The
> general consensus is that it has to do with devices that are not IRM
> capable.

I don't know what that means, but I'll bet that if video cameras and
external disk drives don't work, there'd be a revolution. The audio
community isn't big enough to rock the Microsoft boat so I guess that
if there's really a problem we'll just have to wait for it to be
resolved on their schedule.

> unless you have a lot of security concerns, you can probably run just fine
> on SP2 for a while.

I guess you mean SP1. It's probably safe, and even a good idea to
install SP2 on your home/business/Internet computer because of the
security fixes. But security shouldn't be a problem with a studio
computer because you shouldn't be messing around on the Internet with
it anyway. I realize that a certain amount of Internet activity is
hard to avoid, but you don't get robbed going to a legitimate
manufacturer's web site to get a software upgrade.

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