USB 2.0 and 1394b

[ranasta]

Does anyone know why there does not appear to be an add-in card that would upgrade my G4 to USB 2.0 AND Firewire 800? There are many that do one or the other but none that I've found that do both.
Technically difficult or manufacturers aren't up to speed?
Thanks.

 

[bobw]

Manufactures may not be up to speed on making these yet, or could be that the cards that are available are including both 800 (two ports) and 400 (one port), and there isn't enough room for USB.

 

[ElDiabloConCaca]

http://www.sonnettech.com and http://www.orangemicro.com both have cards that do FireWire 400 and USB 2.0, but none for FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 yet.

I would bet that a card that does both FW 800 and USB 2.0 is right around the corner...

 

[Zammy-Sam]

FW800 over PCI slot? Isn't the PCI slot the bottleneck?

 

[ranasta]

Firewire Direct (http://www.firewiredirect.com/) tells me they'll soon be releasing such a card and that I can preorder it now. No mention of price. So, if you've been waiting for this it'll be just a bit longer.

 

[Pengu]

You may find firewire 800 and usb2 will be somewhat limited over pci.