On 04/15/2014 11:46 PM, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
david wrote:
there's no Windows 7 device driver for his Firewire PC Card adapter.
All FireWire controllers use the same driver interface (OHCI), and that
driver ships with Windows.
If there is a problem, it is with the PC Card controller driver.
Hmm, no, that's not what Windows 7 said about his Firewire PC card
device. It said he needed to get and install a driver for it. And the
vendor of the card said they weren't going to produce a Windows 7 driver
for it.
So I thought, maybe a Firewire<->USB adaptor would work.
These are completely different protocols; they cannot be mapped to each
other.
Yet there are a bunch of connectors that appear to do that, although
probably not reliable enough for serious use.
I see Amazon has a selection:
Firewire to USB
http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Afirewire%20to%20usb%20adapter
These do not work (see the reviews) unless your computer also has
a FireWire controller that is connected to the USB jack.
Unfair: There's an Apple Thunderbolt to FireWire Adapter!
Thunderbolt is just a PCIe bus.
Then why not a Firewire<>ESATA adaptor?
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