Hello, I have an Alienware area 51 m7700 laptop and I bought the Tascam FW-1082 interface to use with it (running Cubase LE), anyway, the Tascam has a 6 pin firewire port and my laptop has a 4 pin port with no spaces available for adding a 6 pin port, what can I do? I emailed this problem to Tascam and they replied:
"The FW-1082 requires a 6-pin Firewire connection. We do not support it's ooperation with 4-pin".
They didn't give me any alternatives, advice, suggestions or anything. They couldn't even answer whether the FW-1082 required the power provided by the 2 extra pins on the 6 pin firewire port, which is all I think the extra 2 pins do. I could get a PCMCIA express card for my laptop that has a 6 pin port on it but would that work, will it have the 2 12 volt power pins activated or not? If anybody has any suggestions or anything, please help, I am at wits end.
"The FW-1082 requires a 6-pin Firewire connection. We do not support it's ooperation with 4-pin".
They didn't give me any alternatives, advice, suggestions or anything. They couldn't even answer whether the FW-1082 required the power provided by the 2 extra pins on the 6 pin firewire port, which is all I think the extra 2 pins do. I could get a PCMCIA express card for my laptop that has a 6 pin port on it but would that work, will it have the 2 12 volt power pins activated or not? If anybody has any suggestions or anything, please help, I am at wits end.