Re: [Thinkpad] Anyone using an IEEE-1394/Firewire PCMCIA card with T41?

XP on the other 3 computers too?

Deanna
dberman@4dv.net

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From: "Starfire CT" <starfirect@hotmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 14:06 PM
Subject: [Thinkpad] Anyone using an IEEE-1394/Firewire PCMCIA card with T41?

> I've gotten two different PCMCIA cards to try to hook up an external HD via
> FireWire. One card has 3 ports on it, the other has 2 ports. XP recognizes
> the card just fine.
>
> When I use the 3 port card with my external HD/enclosure, it finds the drive
> for a second and then loses it. When I use the 2 port card, it stays
> visible but XP tells me it has issues when writing to the drive because it
> might be "missing". In all trials I've hooked up the drives to an external
> power supply, so they are definately getting enough power to spin. Without
> the adapater the 2 port sends NO power at all and the 3 port sends some but
> not enough to fully spin the drive.
>
> The current drive works fine in its current enclosure via the USB2 port.
> I've tried the cards with different enclosures and different drives (and all
> of this hardware has worked fine when I used them with the on-board 1394
> ports of my old Sony notebooks and on my current desktop (ASUS onboard
> 1394)) so I doubt it's either of them. The PCMCIA cards came from different
> source and made by different manufacturers so I can't believe they're both
> shot, but I've only got access to one notebook so I can't test that theory.
>
> So has anyone else tried this? I'm beginning to wonder if I've gotten a
> "troubled" machine here... the USB support is iffy: booting doesn't work
> with anything but a floppy drive and only a couple enclosures have worked
> 100% - it chokes on USB/HD's or USB Keydrives. My Intel WiFi card is iffy:
> the current one works most times (assuming the crashing has been driver
> related) but when I got a replacement card, it wouldn't connect to ANY
> network (and it sees three of them). Now 2 out of 2 FireWire/PCMCIA cards
> act weird, whenever a drive is plugged in.
>
> And yet I still love the notebook. Go figure... I don't know that I can
> part with it long enough for service, though. I mean I would if I had to
> and there was definately something wrong, but sending it in just "because
> it's been sorta weird" seems like it's a waste of time.
>
> Thanks!
>
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Received on Sat Mar 6 20:36:52 2004