Firewire 800?

[Paul C]

I'm looking to buy a firewire 800 pci card, will I need to buy any special firewire 800 cable or will a normal firewire cable transfer 800mps?

 

[Zammy-Sam]

The plug for firewire 800 is different than 400 and thus you will need a new cable.

 

[Paul C]

Kool, thanks, I'll get one of them when I buy the card, thanks for the help

 

[cybergoober]

Do you have a FireWire 800 drive? Wouldn't it have come with a cable?
Or is this to transfer between a G5 and a non-FireWire 800 machine... which begs the question - wouldn't ethernet be faster?

 

[Zammy-Sam]

I am wondering if it makes any sense to have one drive plugged to a firewire 800. Even 400mbit are more than most of the drives can transfer..

 

[Paul C]

The 8x DVD writer I have will only write at 2.5x times max at the moment, thats why I was upgrading the firewire card

 

[Zammy-Sam]

Your old DVD writer was on usb1.1?

 

[iZero]

on a unrelated question: does a usb 2.0 pc card work with a pbook g4? or even a firewire pc card, if such exists

 

[Zammy-Sam]

I once plugged a usb 2.0 card bus to my tibook and it worked without any drivers. However, I didn't see any huge improvement in speed. A usb2.0 disk was plugged.. And there are firewire pc cards available.

 

[iZero]

cool, im looking to buy a extra firewire/usb drive for my pbook, and need another firewire port

 

[Paul C]

Nah this one is a Lacie D2 8x but at the moment I can only write at like 2.5x cos I need a Firewire 800 card cos at the moment I've only got Firewire 400

 

[Zammy-Sam]

Well, 2.5x would need max 2mb/sec. 8x would be at <10mb/sec. Firewire 400 makes max. 50mb/sec. I don't think your problem lies on firewire 400 but maybe on your media or your slow harddisc/system.