SCVJeff wrote:
I wonder if anything short of USB 3 on the laptop can support the constant data rate without choking?
Yeah, there are a number of posts on the internet that say the streaming of Firewire can easily overrun the packet mechanism used in USB. USB 1.0 would probably never work as it's way to slow. If it's the first implementation of Firewire (1394A) then it may work with USB 2.0 but there better not be anything else running on the USB chain. Later versions of Firewire (1394B) are twice as fast though and would probably overrun USB 2.0 easily. So I think you're right, you'd need to be using USB 3.0, but the problem with USB is it will slow down to the slowest device on the chain. So even if you have USB 3.0 if there's a USB 2.0 or 1.1 device plugged into that USB controller the entire chain will be downgraded.
