StarTech 3 Port IEEE-1394 Mini PCIe FireWire Adapter

CM4 Functionality	Pi 5 Functionality	Driver Required?	More Info
None	Full	No	GitHub Issue

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The StarTech IEEE 1394 3-port Mini PCIe FireWire adapter slots into a mini PCIe slot, and supplies two FireWire 800 ports, and a single FireWire 400.

User @RobertMCortese built Open MRU, a Raspberry Pi 5-based FireWire camera capture device, using this card and a GeeekPi PCIe to Mini PCIe HAT.

Inside /boot/firmware/config.txt, he added:

dtparam=pciex1
dtoverlay=pcie-32bit-dma

And it seems to work! He recorded footage using DVgrab, and uploaded it to a few threads on Reddit. As someone who owns a working Canon GL2 (which is similar to the GL1 and XL1 I used for my earliest YouTube videos), I am very interested in replicating this setup, so I’ve ordered the hardware as well :)

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