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FireWire to USB via a FireWire and USB hard drive
I have got an old PowerBook G4 with FireWire 400, and a new(ish) iMac with FireWire 800.
If I want to start the PowerBook G4 in Target mode, I can't plug it into my iMac because they use different ...
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Timer to Enable/Disable a USB port in Windows?
I have a large multitouch screen that's connected to a windows computer. It is connected to the computer by Firewire, USB, and DVI for various signals. If you unplug any of those connections, the ...
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Why won't my drive boot over FireWire?
I have a brand new Western Digital MyPassport Studio, which I'd like to use as a utility drive. It will boot my Mac Pro over USB, but not over FireWire 800. Western Digital's support basically told me ...
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PC to PC file transfer using FireWire
Is there a way to copy transfer files over FireWire from one laptop to another? Both have windows 7.
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Does a new Dell XPS 15 have native support for FireWire, or have a CardBus slot? [closed]
I'm looking for a new Dell laptop to live stream from a video camera as well as do some video editing. It looks like a XPS 15 is the best cost/performance laptop for this.
I'd like to have a FireWire ...
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Force unmount on OS X Lion
I have a WD External hard drive that I believe is defective. Every now and then it simply hangs and its unresponsiveness makes finder stop responding. It will not reset itself until I disconnect the ...
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Are there guidelines for the performance implications of adding multiple usb/firewire drives to a Mac?
I have noticed that I get a significant performance drop on a Mac Pro with more than 5 daisy chained firewire 800 drives. Task switching grinds to a halt, and the machine often beachballs between ...
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looking for alternatives to virtual machines, as FireWire is not working
I have a Windows 7 64bit host system and Windows XP 32bit running as a guest in VMware.
I am developing software in the guest system, but an extension of my programm is to have access to a FireWire ...
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What do USBs have that FireWires don't? [closed]
From a technical point of view is there any reason why I wouldn't want to use a FireWire cable to transfer large files between computers?
Is FireWire the best when compared with Ethernet, and USB (2 ...
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How to detect FireWire interface and Connected device on it, in Ubuntu 11.04?
I have a FireWire camera LifeSize connected to my PC in the FireWire interface. My PC has miniPCI slot and with external converter its having a FireWire interface. Now its Ubuntu who is not showing me ...
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Transferring between firewire hard drives
I currently have a firewire 800 desktop hard, and want to move the contents onto a another drive. If the other drive I get also has firewire 800, I know I can daisy chain them together.
I was ...
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Converting Firewire to USB 3 - is it theoretically possible?
I am in the process of buying a new laptop for video capture / editing, and it's proving difficult to find one at a decent price / spec that includes Expresscard for Firewire connectivity (which I ...
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Installed Paragon HFS+ for Windows 8, now my pc won't recognize the external firewire drive
I'm not incredibly knowledgeable about computers and I really need some help.
Just got a Seagate external firewire drive this morning. I downloaded the necessary pc driver (Paragon HFS+ for Windows ...
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How can I affordably transfer/convert MiniDv tapes (with some weird constraints)?
I hope this question is appropriate for superuser...
I have an old JVC camcorder (GR-DVL300U) and about 30 MiniDV tapes. I want to copy these to my computer and/or to DVD. However:
a) There's ...
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firewire emulation for virtual machines
As is well known by people that have the joy of having a FireWire professional audio interface, virtual machines (VirtualBox, VmWare, etc.) cannot access FireWire devices.
I'm wondering if there are ...
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Firewire 800 cable for new iMac
Which one of these cables
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=firewire+800+cable+imac&x=0&y=0
is the one I have to buy to connect a firewire ...
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Do I have firewire 1394a or 1394b? lspci dump inside
Trying to determine which firewire version I have in my laptop. Here's lspci -vv:
05:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): JMicron Technology Corp. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 30) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
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Good Video Importing Software?
I have a mini DV handycam. I have to import video from DV to laptop. I normally use ieee 1394 or iLink cable for import. Please suggest me best software for importing video from mini DV to laptop. It ...
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Drobo Firewire 800 to iMac not working
I have a Drobo (regular... no 'S') and I just bought a new iMac 27" with a Firewire 800 port.
I can connect my Drobo to the iMac via USB 2.0 just fine works as intended. However, when I attempt to ...
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Can daisy chained external hard drives all be bus powered?
Say I have two (or even more!) Firewire 800 bus powered external hard drives. Will all of them be fully powered (and not require an external power source) when I daisy chain them onto my computer? Or ...
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Windows 7 and firewire
I have a problem in Windows 7 using firewire. I connect my Canon HV20 to it but it won't show up as if it's connected. I used the same firewire slot with windows xp before and it all worked well.
I ...
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What is powering up my external unmounted firewire drive?
I have two external hard discs connected through firewire 800 to a Macbook Pro. Usually I only work with one, so I unmount the other, which powers down. However, after some time the unmunted hard disk ...
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Why do firewire drives on Mac OS cause processes to go into uninterruptible wait?
I have a Western Digital My Passport Studio external hard drive. It works with either Firewire 800 or USB 2.0. I've noticed that when I have it connected to Firewire, after a few hours, processes on ...
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PATA to SATA convertor for FW400 enclosure?
I have a decent USB2/FW400 HD enclosure with an old 250GB PATA HD inside. I am using its FW400 interface. I would like to reuse the box with a newer SATA drive but I wonder if the SATA-PATA adapter ...
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Transfer rate for connecting multiple Firewire cables from external hard drive
What happens when I connect 2 Firewire cables from an external hard drive to a PC? Will the transfer rate doubles?
Reason for asking:
Throughput rate from our server to the external hard drive is too ...
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USB 3 vs Firewire 800
We want to get some external hard-drives >= 1TB for copying large videos (10-500gb) and image sequences (1-150k files) in-house ala sneaker-net between Macs and PCs.
Does anyone have real-world ...
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How to backup MiniDV tapes?
I would like to backup my MiniDV tapes using the FireWire port in a raw format (byte for byte) to avoid any degradation in quality.
What (preferably open source) software would you recommend for ...
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Is firewire drive emulation (like Macs' target disk mode) possible with a PC?
Is there an application that allows one to 'export' a drive or virtual disk image to firewire so that the machine at the other end sees the computer as a regular firewire drive? Apple computers can do ...
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How to Connect Firewire Camcorder to Laptop without firewire port
I Have a Sony Camcorder w/ a 4-pin firewire output. I have HP laptop I want to use it with, but the laptop, does not have a firewire port, just VGA, HDMI, USB, ESATA, Ethernet, and Modem. In addition, ...
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Canon HV20 recognized, but no drivers in Windows 7 x64
My Canon HV20 camcorder is properly recognized when connected via Firewire to Windows 7 x64, but no drivers are installed for it. Windows or I cannot locate any drivers for it as, but it should be ...
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How do I get a FireWire drive to show up as a drive (as opposed to a shared folder) in a VMWare Windows XP virtual machine on my Mac?
I’ve got a Windows XP vitual machine running in VMWare 2 on my Mac.
I’ve got a FireWire drive with a Windows-readable partition on it plugged into my Mac. This Windows partition shows up in the ...
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How do I use FireWire drives in a VMWare Windows XP virtual machine on my Mac?
I’ve got a Windows XP vitual machine running in VMWare 2 on my Mac.
I can get USB drives to show up in the virtual machine, by selecting them in the “USB Devices” section of “Removable Devices” in ...
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FIREWIRE - Windows XP - No audio? not recognized as audio source?
I have a sony camcorder i'm connecting to windows XP via firewire.
Windows XP recognizes the camera as a video source, but not as an audio source.
i.e. it does not show up as an option in the drop ...
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Best performance for small files on external drive?
Which bus has the best read/write performance for small files when used with an external drive? I'd guess eSATA, but the MacBook Pro in question lacks an ExpressCard slot. So it comes down to either ...
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After the BIOS boots, how can I dump memory?
After the BIOS boots, I'd like to dump the memory of the system. I have read about how it is possible using FireWire to do this, but have found no hard instructions or tutorials about it.
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Can I disable FireWire during Mac OS X boot sequence?
Mac OS X 10.5.8 running on 2 GHz PowerPC G5 iMac. Firewire no longer working (powers a firewire disk, but fails to mount). "About this Mac - Hardware - FireWire" displays "FireWire Bus: Warning: ...
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Is there such a thing as a firewire to usb 2 converter, for older Macs?
A friend has an old iLamp iMac, which only has USB 1. It’s got a FireWire 400 port though.
To make it less painful getting video etc. on and off his iPhone 4, it’d be great if he could get USB 2 ...
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Internal Small SSD, External (usb, firewire?) hard drive
This is three questions in one, but: I'm thinking about getting a Macbook Pro with an internal SSD, and the prices are prohibitive for anything aside from the 128GB SSD. So the questions are (links to ...
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Firewire cord is causing issues? [closed]
I think my firewire cord is frayed and is losing memory when using it. It is messing with the content being sent through it.
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Programs keep waiting for external disk to spin up - how to ignore disk?
Like many Mac users I have an external Firewire disk hooked up to my Mac to be used by Time Machine. This works very well, backup-wise.
The problem is that very often when I use a Mac application and ...
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Firewire 800 with Windows
I have two windows machine with windows server 2003 installed on them.
I am running a Lab View script on 1 machine and storing the data. But since it has less memory, I want to transfer data to ...
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IEEE 1394 Firewire Card is not visible in Device Manager in WIndows 7
I have a IEEE 1394 card that I have placed in one of the PCI slots of my Windows 7 PC. I have moved to Windows just last week and Windows is not detecting this card. It is not listed in the Devide ...
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Testing Firewire 800 port on MacBook Pro
I am having trouble getting my MacBook pro to mount an external Firewire hard drive.
I am able to mount the disk no problem on other Macs, just not my machine. I haven't received any errors from my ...
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Speed comparison between USB 2.0, USB 3.0 and SATA and Firewire
Which is fast, faster, fastest? I would appreciate a slowest to fastest list including USB 2.0, USB 3.0, FireWire 400, FireWire 800 and eSata.
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Any limitations for putting an SSD in a Mini? How fast would an external HDD be via Firewire? Is Server Edition worth the extra?
I'm considering getting a Mini for web programming. I do a lot of text searches so I want to put a SSD in it. Does the Mini have any limitations that might effect the performance of a SSD?
I'm trying ...
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Forward all traffic from one IP to another IP on OS X
This is related to this question I just asked...
I have two IP address on my iMac I want to "bridge". I'm not sure what the proper terminology is... here's the situation.
My iMac has a firewire ...
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Would firewire networking be better than 100Megabit ethernet?
My office network has a fully switched 1000Megabit ethernet network. I have an Apple iMac with a Gigabit NIC and FireWire, and a Compaq laptop with a 100Megabit NIC and a 4-pin FireWire interface. ...
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Will An External Audio Interface Reduce CPU Load?
I am considering buying a very-low-latency audio interface like this one. One question is if it will reduce CPU load (I'm at about 60%+ and my Macbook has 2.4ghz and 4gigs ram) during intensive audio ...
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x64 Windows 7 won't recognize my Sony DV cam DCR-TRV330 through Firewire
I'm having issues using my Sony DV cam DCR-330 and windows 7 ultimate 64bit. I connect the DV Cam as I do it in another pcs (works flawless in windows windows xp 32 bit and another notebook with the ...
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Hooking up a mac to an HDTV
I've got a mac with a firewire port but no HDMI port. I want to connect it to my HDTV. I've done this many times with a PC via HDMI and Svideo, but I'm not sure how to connect my new MacBook Pro to ...
