cable woe

[Carl K. <ca...@pe...>]

I have been using 2 cables to test with.  both 4-6
#1 6'
#2 15'

I boot box, plug in #1, both ends are detected.
try #2, no ends.
try #1, both ends.
try #2, no ends

seems like a bad cable.
so I plug #2 into a dv cam, cam gets fw2, dv plays in kino just fine.
un plug cam, plug back into laptop, no ends.
back into cam, dv2.
back into laptop,no ends.

I have about 100 firewire cables, probably 10 the same as #2: 4-6,
15', same manufacture.
I also have other boxes I could use to help figure out what is going on.

But I am hesitant to start introducing more hardware without some
guidence.  any suggestions?

-- 
Carl K