Hi out there,
I’m expecting the first reply to this thread to be: "you can buy that from – so and so- it’s called ---
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[quote=marq5]Hi out there,
I’m expecting the first reply to this thread to be: "you can buy that from – so and so- it’s called ---
Thanks Tom,
That's what I wanted to hear.
I won't do it.
whats wrong with powering the drive from the comp :?
TOM
Hi Tom,
Thanks for even wasting your time with me. I guess I have been working too hard.
Last week I used my newly bought iBook G4 on a job, and needed to dump some data from the iBook onto my pocket drive. I guess in the hectic I did something wrong, or didn’t do something right, so that the pocket drive did not work. I assumed that the drive wasn’t getting power from the firewire bus (there must be some differences between the iBook and the Powerbook). Anyway, I’m an idiot – because after reading your post I hooked my drive to the comp. and it works fine over the FireWire 12v I mean 15v bus.
The only reason for a cable like the one I was suggesting would be for the occasional need to hook up with a PC laptop, which really doesn’t supply power over the FW bus. The FW hub and power supply I use for such occasions is as big as the pocket drive itself. It would be nice to have something more compact and it would be nice to have something for when there is no external power available.
Thanks for your interest, and help in discovering the obvious.
Cheers,
DK
My Sony laptop has FW400, but only on a 4-pin port. I wish this would work
Even if USB were 12V, you wouldn't be able to do it, because the output current is *very* limited (in the order of only a couple hundred mA). That's why powered USB hubs are so important.