Firewire Conversion Kits
Pardon my ignorance, but could someone enlighten me about this product?
I have recently noticed that there are Firewire conversion kits
available. Apparently you can take a standard IDE DVD/CDRW/ZIP etc.,
enclose it in these units and you have a firewire peripheral. Having
been told that firewire is supposed to be so much faster, my question
is: do these kits work, and do they allow IDE peripherals to run at
firewire speeds?
My reason for asking is that my new laptop has a builtin firewire port,
and I would like to connect a CDRW to it. Hopefully someone any can
help clear this up for me.
Thanks
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than that of the dedicated unit even if it is itself hybridized. You may
run into problems when some software expects to see the device on one
bus and it's on another. Finally, there may be things you want to do
with the drive in DOS - for example, to restore a backup.
Mike
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400 Mbps :-)), but it will let the CDRW run at its Max advertised
read/write speed.
It's cheaper to get a kit and put in a CDRW. I built one and it works
great. Most PC laptop use a 4 pin FireWire connector, so you will need 4
to 6 pin adaptor or a 4-6 pin cable.
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up in the near future. You would probably be better off with one of
those than making a kluge of the sort you suggest.
Mike
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