Firewire Port???

[3dyota777]

Hey Guys,

I have a question? Does my computer have a Fire Wire input on it. I was searching the net and it said the P.C. needs a 1394 FireWire input on it. Well I was looking at the inputs and on one of them it has 1394 written across the top. Is this Firewire compatible.

I want to put a firewire external hard drive on this thing so I can save my music files on it, and my app files on the internal Hard drive.

I have a 2004 Dell Inspirion 5100 Laptop
Pentium 4 Processor
2.40 GHz
512 MB Ram

Thanks!

 

[crosstudio]

yes, 1394 (IEEE 1394) and firewire are the same thing.

i have a dell 8500 laptop and the firewire (4-pin not 6-pin) works very well, but i wish it was a 6-pin because i could make use of the power features for my edirol fa-101.

buying a 6-pin firewire interface for the pcmcia slot apparently will not give you power on the pins either.

 

[arjoll]

yes, 1394 (IEEE 1394) and firewire are the same thing.

Our if you're Sony you call it iLink

i have a dell 8500 laptop and the firewire (4-pin not 6-pin) works very well, but i wish it was a 6-pin because i could make use of the power features for my edirol fa-101.

buying a 6-pin firewire interface for the pcmcia slot apparently will not give you power on the pins either.

Most laptops I've seen just have 4 pin connectors, except the Apple iBook and PowerBook. Mac users are spoilt - we have clients who power external hard drives and all sorts of other stuff from their FireWire ports!

Even running powered devices from desktops with 6 pin FireWire ports can cause problems - I'd only do this if the card has a 4 pin Molex power connector (like a hard drive plug), as the ones that run just off the PCI slot often seem to cause problems.

(BTW we are Apple Authorised Resellers, HP Premium Business Partners and Sony Vaio Authorised Dealers so see a few laptops pass through!)

Cya
Andrew