Spencer Russell wrote: > On 4/10/07, Pieter Palmers <pieterp@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> Spencer Russell wrote: >> > >> > Is anybody using a firewire card through a PCMCIA adpter? I hesitate >> > to use a firewire card because I want something that's bus-powered, >> > but this laptop only has a 4-pin firewire. I'm leaning perhaps to >> the... >> >> >> Note that there might be exceptions, but: >> PCMCIA or Cardbus adapters are also unable to provide bus power, >> notwithstanding the fact that they do have 6-pin adapters. The >> PCMCIA/cardbus bus doesn't provide the power needed for the FireWire >> bus, so these adapters can't provide it. >> IIRC. PCMCIA devices may use max. 500mA. (*5V = 2.5W). and it's well protected against drawing too much current from it. (at least compared to USB.) > Hrm, this is problematic. I'd just about settled down to the idea of > either the Presonus Firepod of the Edirol FA-66, but if there's no way > to get them portable power, you could get or build an adapter. USB-power + 4pin 1394 to 6pin 1394. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
