Firewire 800

[Luca]

I just bought a LACIE external drive that comes with
Firewire 800 connections. I tried to connect it through
an (Orange Micro) Orange Link Firewire 800 PCI card but
although the PC (Dell Workstation 620) sees the card,
Windows XP Pro does not see the LACIE dirve connected to
it. The Firewire 800 drivers I dowloaded from Orange
Micro are not veriefied by windows. Is there any
workaround to this problem?

 

[Bob Harris]

Did you try installing the drivers, even though Xp said that they were not
verified? If not, try that. "Not verified" merely means that the drivers
have not gone through extensive tesitng to Microsoft standards. They may be
very good drivers, just not blessed by Microsoft. Bear in mind that
firewire 800 is newer than XP, so the native XP drivers will not be
adequate.

 

[Edward Lohr]

Did you try installing the drivers, even though Xp said that they were not
verified? If not, try that. "Not verified" merely means that the drivers
have not gone through extensive tesitng to Microsoft standards. They may be
very good drivers, just not blessed by Microsoft. Bear in mind that
firewire 800 is newer than XP, so the native XP drivers will not be
adequate.

I just bought a firewire external HD, 1394a version. To see the speed
increase using the new 800 firewire card, doesn't one have to have a
64 bit pci slot? I checked and all mine are 32 bit. Any suggetions? It
seems that all the motherboards that offer a 64 bit slot are duel
processors and extremely pricey. Thank.