Add StarTech.com 3 Port 2b 1a 1394 Mini PCI Express FireWire Card Adapter

[geerlingguy]

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 :)

See related discussion: https://github.com/geerlingguy/raspberry-pi-pcie-devices/discussions/751

[geerlingguy]

It's on the site here: https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com/cards_other/startech-mini-pcie-firewire.html

[RobertMCortese]

Hey Jeff, just a quick note. The included power adapter is not needed if you're only using the 6 pin Firewire.

[geerlingguy]

@RobertMCortese - So that's only for the FW 800 ports? Nice!

[RobertMCortese]

So last night I looked up what’s sent down the firewire when you press the record button on your camera. I’ll try to get this setup to start recording when that happens.