Firewire problems on the X31

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ragefury32 · #1 Post by **ragefury32** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 5:51 pm

Hi...Does anyone have problems dealing with the Firewire port on their X31s? I recently bought an adaptec 1394/USB2 powered 3.5" HDD enclosure and a 6 to 4 pin IEEE1394 adapter. Mounted an 80GByte HDD in there, set it up and verified it to work on a machine with a 6 pin FW400 port and running Windows 2000 professional. Everything looks good.

Okay. Inserted the 4 to 6 adapter, jacked the rig into the IEEE1394 on the side of the X31 running Windows XP...and...NOTHING shows up. No device insertion notices, nothing. What gives?

christopher_wolf · #2 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 6:01 pm

It could be a problem with powering the device through the FirwWire port.

#3 Post by **aamsel** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:00 am

I believe that is correct.
You need the 6 pin connector for power. 4 pin gives you data only.

Andrew

christopher_wolf wrote:It could be a problem with powering the device through the FirwWire port.

seneca · #4 Post by **seneca** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:29 am

Yes, 6 pin gets you power, 4 only data. The 4pin is mostly useful when connecting to a videocamera or something with its own powersource.

Firewire problems on the X31

Firewire problems on the X31

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