Re: firewire 800 trouble

[F. H. <hei...@am...>]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Harald Kubota wrote:

>
> of course Linux FW drivers support devices which get power from the FW cable. 
> I've got several external
> (2.5") disks which work perfectly (mostly thanks to Oxford 911 bridge chip).
> However not all PCs supply enough power on the FW ports. Old G4 Power Macs 
> supplied 24V.
> 40V is the maximum allowed. Pcs usually use 12V. At 1.5A max that's 36W in 
> one case and 18 in the latter
> (and 60W max). If your device uses 20W, then the PC will just not work 
> whereas it will work with the Mac.

The FW drive works fine with the G4 Mac.  The FW800 card in the PC has a 
connector plugged into a disk drive cable for extra power.  I'll see if 
enough power is supplied under Windows and report back.

Fred

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