Startech.com IEEE 1394 Firewire Cardbus problem

You just need to plug one end of the firewire (IEEE 1394) cable into the external hard drive and the other end in the slot on the computer marked IEEE 1394. Sometimes you have a IEEE 1394 slot on the front panel, and sometimes it's just on the back of the PC.

If you find you don't have a firewire (IEEE 1394) port on your PC then you will need to get adapter that will change the firewire to a usb. If you have trouble finding one of those then install a card like this in your desktop:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124002&cm_re=usb_to_IEEE_1394-_-15-124-002-_-Product

You just need to plug one end of the firewire (IEEE 1394) cable into the external hard drive and the other end in the slot on the computer marked IEEE 1394. Sometimes you have a IEEE 1394 slot on the front panel, and sometimes it's just on the back of the PC.

If you find you don't have a firewire (IEEE 1394) port on your PC then you will need to get adapter that will change the firewire to a usb. If you have trouble finding one of those then install a card like this in your desktop:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124002&cm_re=usb_to_IEEE_1394-_-15-124-002-_-Product

Good Luck!

download driver max it is free

For your camcorder, your computer will need a simcard slot or you will have to order a cardbus with IEEE1394 connections.

FireWire IEEE-1394 PCMCIA 2 port CardBus Inserting the firewire IEEE1394 cardbus being inserted into the laptop cardbus port ... Make the connection between the FireWire CardBus and your DV camera, ...
www.usbgear.com/Firewire_PCMCIA_cardbus/

FireWire IEEE-1394 PCMCIA 2 port CardBus Adapter - Increased speed ...Inserting the firewire IEEE1394 cardbus being inserted into the laptop cardbus port ... Make the connection between the FireWire CardBus and your DV camera, ...
www.usbgear.com/Firewire_PCMCIA_cardbus/

1394 drivers should be native to XP, you may be able to correct this by running an SFC scan

Take out the IEEE1394 card
Insert your Windows CD (if you do not have it order a backup from dell)
Exit out of 'install screen'
click Start
click Run
type 'sfc /scannow'
press enter
you should see a progress bar, when finished restart the computer

this compared critical windows files on harddrive vs CD, and replaces missing and corrupt files

get a PCMCIA firewire card, here is an example:

http://www.firewire-1394.com/firewire-3-port-cardbus-card-gpf113.htm

To download video you need Firewire port, also known as an IEEE 1394 port.
Windows XP or Vista can save your video files.

PCMCIA 2-Port IEEE 1394 FireWire Laptop Cardbus PC Card

Though I suspected that I already knew the answer to your question about a source for drivers for the Maxtor 1394 CardBus Adapter, I wanted to research this in order to be able to provide PROOF that my answer is correct. As a result, I've now spent more than two hours researching this issue for you... As it turns out, the drivers you have requested are actually EMBEDDED within Windows itself, and have been ever since the release of Windows 98 Second Edition. They are listed within Windows as "OHCI 1394" drivers, which is another designation for FireWire / IEEE1394 device drivers. According to the Seagate / Maxtor Knowledge Base, there are NO downloadable drivers for the Maxtor 1394 Cardbus Adapter, and none have ever existed. The software originally provided on the CD in the retail package for the Maxtor 1394 Cardbus Adapter did NOT include drivers, which I'll explain in more detail later... As a general rule, when installing the Maxtor 1394 CardBus Adapter into a system for the first time, you insert the PCMCIA card into the Type II slot while Windows is loaded, NOT while the system is shut down; after inserting the card into an empty Type II CardBus slot, you should then hear a tone indicating that Windows has detected a device in the slot. The Add New Hardware Wizard should then load, and you might be prompted to insert your Windows CD into your optical drive, though this should NOT be necessary if you've previously installed any other FireWire devices on the same system. You can download the Installation Guide (in .PDF file format) for the Maxtor 1394 CardBus Adapter from either of the following links: http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/maxtor/en_us/documentation/ins tallation_guides/1394_cardbus_installation_guide.pdf http://ec1.images-amazon.com/media/i3d/01/A/man-migrate/MANUAL000 041641.pdf Simply right-click one of those links, and choose the "Save As..." option to download and save the Installation Guide to your Desktop, or to another folder where you can find it easily... The following links should help you to learn more; the first link explains the reason why drivers are NOT available for download for the Maxtor 1394 CardBus Adapter: http://seagate.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/seagate.cfg/php/enduser/stx_adp.php?p_faqid=831 The next link describes a known problem (and the solution) when the Maxtor 1394 CardBus Adapter is installed on some IBM Thinkpad laptops: http://seagate.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/seagate.cfg/php/enduser/stx_adp.php?p_faqid=1959 The next link describes the hardware and software requirements for installing the Maxtor 1394 CardBus Adapter: http://seagate.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/seagate.cfg/php/enduser/stx_adp.php?p_faqid=762 As I've previously mentioned, the original software (on the CD-ROM) provided with the Maxtor 1394 Cardbus Adapter were the "MaxTools" utilities (which I have NOT been able to locate for download); they were NOT actual hardware drivers for a Windows OS... Well, I hope this solves the mystery of the "missing" FireWire drivers; though I don't recall ever needing to load third-party drivers for ANY FireWire devices I've installed in a Windows system, I wanted to be able to PROVE to you (and to anyone else who reads this in the future) that the drivers are already embedded within Windows, and that they are NOT available for download. As long as you use a supported version of Windows (all versions beginning with the release of Windows 98 Second Edition), you already have the drivers available, though Windows will probably need to extract them from the Windows CD, if they haven't been loaded onto the system previously. Good luck with this; let us know if you have any problems installing your FireWire card. I don't think that is likely to happen, as long as you follow the steps in the Installation Guide. You might want to create printouts of those Seagate Knowledge Base pages (or copy them to your hard drive, or at the least, bookmark the individual links) for future reference.

Jim, Have you run the add hardware wizard? Are your pcmcia card slots enabled? If not in Control Panel then in the BIOS? Good Luck, Tim