Thank you for your fast reply, Matthias.:-)

I have checked online about those cards which stated (if they have) they are using 2213, and I think most PCI-E cards (except the Syba one I saw in this URL here) are using 2213, but it's quite difficult to know which model (or brand) of 2213 chipset are the newest one unless you bought it.

I'm considering to get that Syba card from that URL link, it used TSB82AA2 chipset (the one working falwalessly to me is with this chipset but on PCI bus), but it's running PCIE... So it made me have a question since, from TI document, they said TSB82AA2 is for PCI, while XIO2213 is for PCI-E. Maybe someone can suugest why this happen?

Actually, the one(s) i'm using are from an audio/video card accessory shop where the sales claimed it used the newest chipset (XIO2213), but it turned out to me having the unresolved problem no matter I swapped different XIO2213 cards.

So It would be good if you guys can suggest a workable card without the need to spend another sum of money on wasting (to guess which one is working) a card which is smooth and "glitchless" for connect FW 800~

Thanks again for mentioning the situation, matthias. Wish anyone can give me more opinions. Thanks you guys.

ah, that could mean the speed isn't as fast as it should provided by the original PCI-E speed... :-O

No offense folk, what i was mentioning was about the problems came across with XIO2213 chipset, but not how the architecture works with TSB82AA2 to PCIE, or any problems caused by PCI to PCIE bridge.

However, just checked again the PCIe card i'm using, the chipset printed "XIO2213AZAY". As MC said the eariler 2213 wasn't quite working so I'm not sure if this one is the eariler chipset referred to. I still couldn't find if this chipset was produced early in 2007 or so.

No such information was found in RME tech info documents about chipset(s) to be working with fireface, but mentioned about things like "using the card with TI chipset works fine". Searching on web yielded no useful results too.

I would think many people with fireface came across such, but unresolved.

Regards.

You are right, nowdays even "TI chipset" doesn't mean it will work ok for audio. I built myself a compter few months back, and took care to find a pci-e FW adapter with TI chipset for it, to make sure that my audiofire will work ok, and spent a week trying to make it work, trying to find issue everywhere else except the FW card (it had TI chipset and seemed to be working), but in the end, replacing the card solved the issue. The chipset was something else than XIO2213, but was also something from the XIO22xx series.
Now I temporarily use my friend's old PCI card with NEC chipset and need to find some replacement, but it's quite hard, while in most webshops, they just mention "TI chipset" instead of mentioning the exact chipset used.
Right now, I found KOUWELL 5101 available locally (slovakia) and it's pci-e and they claim it's using tsb82aa2 so i'm going to try it...
(i have to say i find all this very frustrating. same set of firewire troubles i had to go through 7 years ago when firewire was still quite new. now 7 years later - totally the same. no progress...mankind deserves to go extinct..)

After running 400 and 800 Firefaces with separate connections to a Gigabyte GA-X58-UD4P motherboard with a TI TSB43AB23 1394a chip for a year or so with no issues, I had to get a separate PCie card when I upgraded to an Asus P9X79-E WS motherboard, as the native one was a VIA with only a single output.

However, I am finding that two cards with TI XIO2213A (Syba SD-PEX30009 and SIIG NN-FW0012-S1) seem to work absolutely fine when using a single 400 or 800, but when using them together, problems occur with some programs (Cubase and Reaper), but not others (Amplitube).

See the Cannot use 2 RME Firefaces with Cubase 7.x.x and TI XIO2213A thread at http://www.rme-audio.de/forum/viewtopic.php?id=19403 for details.

Hello altogether,

I see it is very old thread but Now I am having similar issues I believe. I was working with Fireface 400 on my Mac Pro 2011 until now. I built new studio and also new workstation:
i7-6700k
16gb 3200mhz
500gb m.2 SSD
Windows 10 Pro x64
1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller (Legacy) drivers installed and active

I have bought PCI-E card Kouwell PE-101 (2xFW400 ports), which is available currently in Czech Republic.
It has TI X102200A chipset, which sadly does not work for me.
- Shows weird levels, mostly right channel only, managed to get sound output once and right after i got windows bluescreen crash, but mostly I dont even get any output and it crashes again.

I have spent hours reading about it but even today I did not find any 100% working solution. Most probably the newer version of chipset TI X102200B will work. Our current market in Czech Republic offers another card Kouwell PE-107 (2x FW800 1xFW400 ports), but they do not specify if that is the newer B version of TI chipset (which they did with the PE-101 card).

They also offer Kouwell KW 5101, which was mentioned by dnk777 earlier, and it has TSB82AA2 chipset.

My current plan: I will return PE-101, and buy both PE-107 and KW 5101 and will test it out (it will arrive tomorrow morning so I will let you all know)

In the meantime, does any one of you here got good results? Last post was posted over 5 years ago.

Cheers
Martin