Re: firewire connectivity

2005-11-15 Thread John Slavin
I don't know if you ever got any answer to your question, but here a pretty reasonable cost ($4.00) for the cable you need. http://store.sunshinestor.com/ie6pinto6pin.html I just saw the link for it on the AMUG page. On Nov 11, 2005, at 3:44 PM, Victoria Brandon wrote: Greetings listers

Re: firewire connectivity

2005-11-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 12, 2005, at 2:59 PM, Victoria Brandon wrote: Thanks Brian, but now I'm more confused than ever: the FW card has two plugs, both 6-pin (exactly like those on my BW G3). The cable that came with it has 6-pin on one end, 4-pin on the other, so can't be used to connect the two

Re: firewire connectivity

2005-11-13 Thread Victoria Brandon
On Nov 11, 2005, at 6:19 PM, Brian Scott Oplinger wrote: Very short answer, FW has an option to carry power along with data, if it does, it uses the 6 pin connector you're familiar with. Your PC card adapter doesn't provide power (nor do a lot of PC notebooks) and so has a 4 pin connector.

Re: firewire connectivity

2005-11-13 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 12/11/05 16:59, Victoria Brandon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 11, 2005, at 6:19 PM, Brian Scott Oplinger wrote: Very short answer, FW has an option to carry power along with data, if it does, it uses the 6 pin connector you're familiar with. Your PC card adapter doesn't provide

Firewire Connectivity Power Options

2005-11-12 Thread illovox
:57 -0500 From: Brian Scott Oplinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: firewire connectivity In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Very short answer, FW has an option to carry power along with data, if it does, it uses the 6 pin connector you're familiar with. Your PC card adapter doesn't provide power

firewire connectivity

2005-11-11 Thread Victoria Brandon
Greetings listers -- As previously related, my computers (BW G3 Lombard PB, both running Panther) adamantly refuse to see each other by way of ethernet. So (as encouraged by list) I bought a firewire card for the Lombard on eBay: it came yesterday and seems to work right out of the box, at

Re: firewire connectivity

2005-11-11 Thread Christina Wellman
Actually the old style of FW cables had 6 pins on both ends...I have cables of both types since some cameras need the 4 pin connector and some HD boxes need the 6pin connector. christina On Nov 11, 2005, at 4:44 PM, Victoria Brandon wrote: Greetings listers -- As previously related, my

Re: firewire connectivity

2005-11-11 Thread Brian Scott Oplinger
Victoria Brandon wrote: Greetings listers -- As previously related, my computers (BW G3 Lombard PB, both running Panther) adamantly refuse to see each other by way of ethernet. So (as encouraged by list) I bought a firewire card for the Lombard on eBay: it came yesterday and seems to work