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Just in case I stuffed up I thought I would ask this here first:
First time dealing with firewire. I have a built in port for it on a laptop
(1394) but have never had anything that uses it so disabled it to begin with
as it appeared like a networking connection and I wasn't using it anyway.
Today I buy an external HD in a case with firewire or 1394 compliant cable.
It plugs into that port on my computer and at the other end plugs in to the
IDE plug on back of the case. I also have the same cable but USB on the
other end, too. The USB to IDE works perfectly. Formatted the drive, an
80gig and split into 3 x 20gig and the rest left over which was about 16gig
and formatted the lot as FAT32 as I will be moving the drive between this XP
machine I am typing on which doesn't have 1394 thus the need for USB, the
laptop which has both and is XP and 98SE machines which have USB only and of
course don't understand NTFS.
While the USB works just fine so that means the case and drive are working
fine also, the 1394 side doesn't. I take off the USB plug, reboot, whatever
and the laptop wont recognise it. I do have the 1394 enabled now but it says
something about TCP/IP not being enabled at some times and I have no idea
why it should be anyway as it is only an external drive. TCP/IP is enabled
now BTW and makes no difference.
Anyone have any idea why this should not be working assuming it isn't the
cable for firewire/IDE is stuffed? If the cable is working OK - and I have
no way to prove it is or isn't right now - then I don't know what the heck
all this is about.
Thanks for any help.
First time dealing with firewire. I have a built in port for it on a laptop
(1394) but have never had anything that uses it so disabled it to begin with
as it appeared like a networking connection and I wasn't using it anyway.
Today I buy an external HD in a case with firewire or 1394 compliant cable.
It plugs into that port on my computer and at the other end plugs in to the
IDE plug on back of the case. I also have the same cable but USB on the
other end, too. The USB to IDE works perfectly. Formatted the drive, an
80gig and split into 3 x 20gig and the rest left over which was about 16gig
and formatted the lot as FAT32 as I will be moving the drive between this XP
machine I am typing on which doesn't have 1394 thus the need for USB, the
laptop which has both and is XP and 98SE machines which have USB only and of
course don't understand NTFS.
While the USB works just fine so that means the case and drive are working
fine also, the 1394 side doesn't. I take off the USB plug, reboot, whatever
and the laptop wont recognise it. I do have the 1394 enabled now but it says
something about TCP/IP not being enabled at some times and I have no idea
why it should be anyway as it is only an external drive. TCP/IP is enabled
now BTW and makes no difference.
Anyone have any idea why this should not be working assuming it isn't the
cable for firewire/IDE is stuffed? If the cable is working OK - and I have
no way to prove it is or isn't right now - then I don't know what the heck
all this is about.
Thanks for any help.