I'm not dead yet! (FireWire)

[The Gecko]

Firewire. It is for all intents and purposes, a dead interface. However, I find myself with a piece of FireWire-800-enabled RME audio equipment. Are there any modern interfaces (USB 3.1, Thunderbolt, something else) that can act as a tunnel for FireWire? I have seen FireWire-over-Thunderbolt adapters for Mac, but I was thinking of something a little more generic that might work with Windows or Linux.

Any ideas?

 

[Aluminum]

Firewire over thunderbolt is most likely just a normal FW controller using the pci-e lanes of TB. If it is using a standard controller should work with any OS that has drivers for it.

Honestly though you are best off just getting a cheap pci-e card with ports, judging by the comments about firewire audio on google you want a TI chipset card. You also might want to be picky about which driver to use, sometimes the windows native one is actually best.

You won't ever tunnel a DMA bus like FW over something non-DMA like USB.