On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 02:23 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > I post the following query from a professional television producers list I > belong to - it speaks for itself: > > "why can't a mobile fire wire hard drive work as my storage unit for my video > camera, you need to buy that expensive external hardrive backup @$1500 for > 40/80 gigs. Isn't there someway of running a pre installed linux program on > the mobile firewire and save my video automatically, I'm not looking for all > the bells and whisles, maybe just independant folders every time I hit the > record button. > Any linux, software gurus, help out." > > Any takers? Ideas? FireWire ports that worked for me in FC3 do not work in FC4/FC5 IMHO FireWire is too unstable in the kernel to even consider using it for professional television production. But :shrug: - maybe something out there using an earlier kernel works. Maybe Linux on a 40GB FireWire iPod :D
