laptop firewire card

[mfavila]

Has anybody tried to use one of those firewire cards (adaptec or otherwise) on their notebook? My sager comes with a firewire port, but it's one of those flimpsy 4 pin ones, and it's on the front of it, so i'm always knocking it out or bending the adaptor. I'm considering getting a card just so that i just go with the standard 6 pin firewire, but i don't know if it would make my system go haywire. i know none are currently approved by digi, but didnt there used to be a few that were approved? any ideas?

[sixways]

There are some approved by Digidesign. I saw some on Digidesign's site a few days ago.

Looking for the link, can't find it though.

Dig deep, its there.

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[spkguitar]

There are no PCMCIA recommendations on the Current qualified FWCard page.


The old page had a list of them, but the list is no longer valid because

• a. the manufacturers changed the way they made the cards without changing the model numbers (the Adaptec FireConnect is one I can personally vouch does not work anymore as it uses a different chipset now)
• b. none of them have been tested to work reliably

[mfavila]

ah ok, that makes sense. I do remember seeing that old page a while back, but I couldn't figure out why they discontinued the listings. thanks.

[dogselur]

I Picked one up on ebay. Just some Hong Kong PCMCIA card by someone who had good feedback. It has worked great on my laptop. I got the one that had firewire and usb 2.0. cost me something like $25 including shipping. Good luck.

[jsmooth226]

i've been using the basic firewire card from compaq and have had no problem running 2 drives from it

[KMK]

I am using the billionton Cardbus IEEE1394 card for connecting my audio interface.

[mfavila]

i guess i could always just pick one up and try it. best buys' got a good return policy hahaha