17 Apr
2014
17 Apr
'14
2:41 p.m.
david wrote:
Yet there are a bunch of connectors that appear to do that, although
probably not reliable enough for serious use.
There is partial degree of reliability. Either the port has been
constructed to be a FireWire port with a USB jack (where the adapter
just maps the pins back), or it doesn't work at all.
Then why not a Firewire<>ESATA adaptor?
Because SATA is a completely different protocol. This could work only
with FireWire hard disks.
Regards,
Clemens
On 04/15/2014 11:46 PM, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
Internally, there's more than one device involved, and the actual
FireWire controller is only the last one. What particular device did
Windows complain about?
david wrote:
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. 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. So I thought, maybe a Firewire<->USB adaptor
would work.
These are completely different protocols; they cannot be mapped to each
other. Unfair: There's an Apple Thunderbolt to FireWire
Adapter!
Thunderbolt is just a PCIe bus.