Members proggisynth Posted June 20, 2006 Members Share Posted June 20, 2006 Please,those of you using laptops with pcmcia firewire adapters (like this for eg. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001UEGRC/sr=8-1/qid=1150792505/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-1545082-2947948?%5Fencoding=UTF8)with your external sound cards...is there any difference in speed compared to using it into a native firewire bus? i was thinking of getting one with 6 pin firewire ports for my laptop to lose the awful wallwart of my firebox..any problems at all? thanks a lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members XorAxAx Posted June 21, 2006 Members Share Posted June 21, 2006 It might depend on how the PCMCIA bus is implemented in your laptop's chipset, driver issues, etc. But in general I'd say there shouldn't be a problem, as IIRC the throughput of PCMCIA is much more than that of Firewire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members elsongs Posted June 21, 2006 Members Share Posted June 21, 2006 Hey! I have one of these, in fact I never even opened the box! It's made by Maxtor and has 2 6-pin ports. If someone wants to buy it, please PM me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members angstwulf Posted June 21, 2006 Members Share Posted June 21, 2006 Originally posted by proggisynth i was thinking of getting one with 6 pin firewire ports for my laptop to lose the awful wallwart of my firebox..any problems at all? thanks a lot! Double check the specs on your pcmcia card if you think you are going to use it to power the firebox. Most of the cards on the market that use the 6 pin ports will not provide power. IIRC the ones that do require a wall wart power supplement anyway which will defeat one purpose of the card. Aside from that, I used an Adaptec pcmcia 6 pin firewire interface with a laptop that didn't have firewire. It worked great with my MOTU 828. On my new computer, I've been using a 4 pin connection. I found no difference in latencies and both were stable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gus Lozada Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 PCMCIA to FireWire adaptors are better with a chipset of Texas INstruments inside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members proggisynth Posted June 21, 2006 Author Members Share Posted June 21, 2006 thanks a lot,guys...erm...do you know any particular models that provide bus power? do they even exist? i really,really hate that wallwart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jamesp Posted June 21, 2006 Members Share Posted June 21, 2006 Sorry, but they don't exist. Not that I wouldn't love to be proven wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members proggisynth Posted June 21, 2006 Author Members Share Posted June 21, 2006 Originally posted by poyaochuang a new laptop, its cheap i just got the top of the line acer 8204 with the latest core duo 2.0 ghz processor,2 gb of ram etc etc for my music purposes...it has this small firewire port and it works fine,but the firebox wallwart is awful.oh well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members proggisynth Posted June 21, 2006 Author Members Share Posted June 21, 2006 yes,ofcourse it is..but i opted for a pc.i dont really mean to byu a new computer simply to get rid of a single wallwart,that'd be stupid,i think....im happy with my acer,its just that i thought i could use the pcmcia slot as a solution...thanks anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members XorAxAx Posted June 21, 2006 Members Share Posted June 21, 2006 The problem is that the PCMCIA bus can't source that much power. It was never meant to power external equipment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members c3400 Posted June 21, 2006 Members Share Posted June 21, 2006 currently there is no pcmia and/or native firewire port available that can supply the neccesary power for 6pin firewire devices... if its a portability issue and you want to write music on the beach or whatever the only possible solution that i found was charging an u.p.s. and bringing it with you:( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members angstwulf Posted June 21, 2006 Members Share Posted June 21, 2006 Originally posted by Gus Lozada PCMCIA to FireWire adaptors are better with a chipset of Texas INstruments inside. True, true. Slightly OT: When I use the Adaptec card (NEC chipset) on the old Toshiba, it worked without a flaw. Honestly. When I used it on my new Centrino (which has a built-in TI chipset and a 4 pin input) it worked horribly. The TI chipset works great. Any ideas why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members proggisynth Posted June 23, 2006 Author Members Share Posted June 23, 2006 is this some kind of a joke? sorry,maybe i misunderstood you,but sounds like you're trying to make fun of me.please,we dont want any flames Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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