Western Dig My book pro - can't use firewire

workaccount · 28-09-2007 9:45am #1

I have the "My book" here now. The FW connection on my computer is a small one but the FW cable with the my book is very big.

Do I need to get another cable? I hope it is 800Mbps or else it really defeats the purpose?

It's a brand new Dell D830 latitude by the way.

Dorsanty · 28-09-2007 10:05am

There's 2 different connectors for Firewire 400. 4 pin and 6 pin (6-pin has power).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireWire.

Firewire 800 has a 9 pin connector which looks very different to the two 400 types.

Seems 1394c will use RJ45 connector, cool. Expect that to take a few years to get to market. Will USB3 also use RJ45? Wouldn't it be such a nice world to only have 1 cable to do so much.

workaccount · 28-09-2007 10:11am

Well then it does not matter because USB2 is faster than firewire 400.

I wonder would it be worth getting some sort of adapter for the extra speed.

L31mr0d · 28-09-2007 1:02pm

workaccount wrote:

Well then it does not matter because USB2 is faster than firewire 400.

I wonder would it be worth getting some sort of adapter for the extra speed.

eh... where did you pull that myth from. USB2 is NOT faster than Firewire400

workaccount · 28-09-2007 1:43pm

I thought USB2 was 480Mbps and Firewire 400 - 400Mbps.

monkeyfudge · 28-09-2007 1:48pm

USB 2 hasn't got a constant bit rate I believe.

Firewire is much better... And FW800 is just lovely.

workaccount · 28-09-2007 1:59pm

If there was some sort of 800 adapter what could I connect it to on the back on my machine? Network port perhaps?

monkeyfudge · 28-09-2007 2:08pm

Very few computers come with FW800 slots as standard.

You could get one of these if your laptop has a PC Card Slot

Western Dig My book pro - can't use firewire

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