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Firewire to USB conversion cable

  • 06-09-2005 8:54am
    #1
    anthonymcg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 663 ✭✭✭


    Does such a thing exist? The boss is bothering me about sourcing one but I can't seem to find much on the web and he says he tried Peats and they didn't have a clue.


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  • #2
    DonkeyStyle \o/
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    Never heard of one... and doubting the possibility of their existence.
    Tell your boss not to be such a tight-ass and buy either a firewire card or a usb hub.


  • #3
    jhegarty
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    anthonymcg wrote:
    Does such a thing exist? The boss is bothering me about sourcing one but I can't seem to find much on the web and he says he tried Peats and they didn't have a clue.

    if they did exist ,(which afaik they don't) they would cost far more then the new firewire or usb card.....


  • #4
    anthonymcg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 663 ✭✭✭anthonymcg


    OK, firewire card it is. He owns a dell and has next to no technical experience so I'm just hoping I don't get roped in to fit the damn thing. Cheers lads.


  • #5
    Sam Vimes
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    the best you can do is a usb hub that has firewire on it too. available in maplin


  • #6
    blorg
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    A USB hub with firewire will still need to be connected to a firewire port on the computer, there is no conversion/relation between the two in the hub (e.g. needs two wires running to the computer, one USB, one firewire.)


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  • #7
    Gurgle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭Gurgle


    anthonymcg wrote:
    Does such a thing exist? The boss is bothering me about sourcing one but I can't seem to find much on the web and he says he tried Peats and they didn't have a clue.
    He wants to use a firewire device with a USB port or a USB device with a firewire port ?

    Or he doesn't know the **** from the shovel and wants to blame somebody ?


  • #8
    anthonymcg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 663 ✭✭✭anthonymcg


    Gurgle wrote:
    He wants to use a firewire device with a USB port or a USB device with a firewire port ?

    Or he doesn't know the **** from the shovel and wants to blame somebody ?

    Firewire device with a USB port. He knows next to nothing about IT stuff but will not stop asking me about it.


  • #9
    DonkeyStyle \o/
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    Just tell him they're two different technologies.
    Like trying to play a CD in a cassette deck.
    Oh and call him a tight-wad.


  • #10
    Gurgle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭Gurgle


    anthonymcg wrote:
    Firewire device with a USB port. He knows next to nothing about IT stuff but will not stop asking me about it.

    Firewire card is about €20

    Tell him the card is the adaptor he needs for his firewire devices to acces the PC's USB network.

    (Charge him €80 for it, then offer to put it in his PC for free as a favour ;) )


  • #11
    Sam Vimes
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    blorg wrote:
    A USB hub with firewire will still need to be connected to a firewire port on the computer, there is no conversion/relation between the two in the hub (e.g. needs two wires running to the computer, one USB, one firewire.)


    noi it wont. there is definitely a hub in maplin that has four or so usb ports and also a firewire port. then a cable comes out of it and plugs into the usb port. not firewire needed. its 32.99


    a pci firewire card will also work


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  • #12
    Random
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    Here's a cable here .. http://www.pixela-1.com/capycable.htm

    Not something you'll find in a shop though, and they'll cost a pretty packet.


    Try something like this instead.


  • #13
    blorg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,995 ✭✭✭✭blorg


    Commander Vimes wrote:
    noi it wont. there is definitely a hub in maplin that has four or so usb ports and also a firewire port. then a cable comes out of it and plugs into the usb port. not firewire needed. its 32.99
    I severely doubt it :D ... That other cable isn't a generic Firewire-USB cable, I think it seems to do hardware MPEG2 encoding on the DV stream in the middle bit, e.g. it wouldn't actually work to plug in a firewire hard disk for example.


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