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Firewire 400 To USB?

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Treeant34

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Morning:

Does anyone know if there is an adapter available to transform a Firewire 400 male to USB 2.0 female?

Does anyone know if there is a firewire 400 flash card reader?

I'm trying to transform my currently useless Firewire 400 port into something useful...

Help?

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Can't be done, would be bloody awful idea even if it was.

Perhaps buy some Firewire peripherals instead of USB?
 
MagicBoy said:
Can't be done, would be bloody awful idea even if it was.
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Yup, I remember back in the G4 days reading on the official Apple forums of some guy buying a no-name chinese FW to USB adapter and essentially destroyed his iMac's FW port.

Good times good times.
 
Treeant34 said:
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Does anyone know if there is a firewire 400 flash card reader?
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There are (or were) Firewire flashcard readers made. It may depend on what type of flash card. I know for a fact there are firewire CF card readers as I have one.
 
yeah FW to USB will not work.

I have So called adaptors but its just for the cords.

I have a usb Regular A to FW 400 Female and then a USB B (printer style) to FW Female

(so Makes a firewire cord to work like a usb one)

Then I also have a

Firewire (Male) to USB A female) and it pairs with a USB B (Printerstyle) to Firewire mini )

Its not good for much unless I'm stricken for cables.
Just get a Dual HDD system on firewire and store your Files on there

Use a usb Drive for time cap. as it does not need that much speed.

I miss editing with firewire=..... Wish my stuff was not stolen!
 
Bear said:
There are (or were) Firewire flashcard readers made. It may depend on what type of flash card. I know for a fact there are firewire CF card readers as I have one.
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Do you remember what brand your FW 400 card reader is and where did you get it?
 
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