Latitude E5500 (or E****) firewire/pci chipset manufacturer

title pretty much says it all! can any lucky owners of the new latitudes please let me know who the manufacturers are of these components! thanks

 

The main chipset is Intel Montevina.

My E6400 has "OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller" and I can't see a brand name. I don't know if this chipset also supports IEEE 1394.

John

 

thanks for the response! has anyone tested the e series with firewire audio interfaces? (particularly motu)

 

I don't think I can help you with any tests. The only Firewire device I have is an old HDD. Or is there any software utility that check the performance?

DPC latency checker is showing about 1 bar in 10 going into the yellow zone so the overall system latency is fairly good.

John

 

there is no software as far as i am aware. the issue is between the manufacturers of the firewire chips... motu interfaces are particularly picky and there are very few reports of them working on anything but texas instruments chipsets. fingers crossed tho ey.

 

SiSoftware Sandra reports the Firewire controller as Dell R5C832, which is Ricoh.

John

 

ah balls. thanks anyway john, you've been a massive help!

 

I realize this thread is slightly dated, but I have the E6500, which should have the same chipset as the E5500. Mine is a ROCOH, with vendor ID 0x1180 and device ID 0x0832. I've been using it with my MOTU 828mkII without any noticeable issues, even with it not being a TI chipset.

Feel free to reply back or PM me if I can be of further help here. It's not often that I run across other MOTU users.