Firewire (also known as i.Link, or IEEE 1394 High Performance Serial Bus / HPSB) is a serial interface, created by Apple, Inc. for personal computers and digital devices for audio and video, which offers high-speed communications and data services in real time.
Questions tagged [firewire]
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Speed comparison between USB 2.0, USB 3.0, eSATA, Firewire and Thunderbolt
Which external connection has the highest data throughput with respect to the headers used? I would appreciate a slowest to fastest list including USB 2.0, USB 3.0, FireWire 400, FireWire 800, eSATA and Thunderbolt considering bandwidth that is…
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USB vs. FireWire for external hard drives
For external hard drives in this question, I'm referring to traditional HDDs; the kind with spinning metal inside of them (no RAM or flash-based super-high-performance hardware):
Is there a significant speed difference between USB 2.0 and FireWire…
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Converting Firewire to USB 3 - is it theoretically possible?
I am in the process of buying a new laptop for video capture / editing, and it's proving difficult to find one at a decent price / spec that includes Expresscard for Firewire connectivity (which I really need). It does seem like Expresscard is on…
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How to detect FireWire interface and Connected device on it, in Ubuntu 11.04?
I have a FireWire camera LifeSize connected to my PC in the FireWire interface. My PC has miniPCI slot and with external converter its having a FireWire interface. Now its Ubuntu who is not showing me anything at all when i try:
$ uname -a
Linux…
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How to Connect Firewire Camcorder to Laptop without firewire port
I Have a Sony Camcorder w/ a 4-pin firewire output. I have HP laptop I want to use it with, but the laptop, does not have a firewire port, just VGA, HDMI, USB, ESATA, Ethernet, and Modem. In addition, It doesn't have a PC Card slot for adding a…
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Daisy-Chained firewire drives
I want to daisy-chain a couple of fw800 drives to my mac and sync data between them. If possible I would like to run software raid 1 on them. So I am looking for input around the following questions:
How is the performance when copying between two…
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Programs keep waiting for external disk to spin up - how to ignore disk?
Like many Mac users I have an external Firewire disk hooked up to my Mac to be used by Time Machine. This works very well, backup-wise.
The problem is that very often when I use a Mac application and try to open a file, the file selection dialogue…
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Forward all traffic from one IP to another IP on OS X
This is related to this question I just asked...
I have two IP address on my iMac I want to "bridge". I'm not sure what the proper terminology is... here's the situation.
My iMac has a firewire connection to my laptop and an ethernet connection to…
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Would firewire networking be better than 100Megabit ethernet?
My office network has a fully switched 1000Megabit ethernet network. I have an Apple iMac with a Gigabit NIC and FireWire, and a Compaq laptop with a 100Megabit NIC and a 4-pin FireWire interface. Accessing my office's shared drives using my laptop…
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Using eSata on external hard drive
I have a Lacie D2 Quadra that I have been using through firewire 800. Mac pros at school have an eSata hookup, but my HD will not show up when I try to use it this way. I have assumed the drive is not hotswappable and turned the comp on after…
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Can Windows 8 boot from FireWire?
I read many times Windows 7 is unable to boot from an external FireWire drive but I wonder if Windows 8 is able to do so.
I need to run Windows on my Mac but only very few times so my idea was to move it all to an external drive. I have one of the…
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firewire emulation for virtual machines
As is well known by people that have the joy of having a FireWire professional audio interface, virtual machines (VirtualBox, VmWare, etc.) cannot access FireWire devices.
I'm wondering if there are ongoing projects to support firewire emulation…
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Can daisy chained external hard drives all be bus powered?
Say I have two (or even more!) Firewire 800 bus powered external hard drives. Will all of them be fully powered (and not require an external power source) when I daisy chain them onto my computer? Or will only the first hard drive in the chain…
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How to backup MiniDV tapes?
I would like to backup my MiniDV tapes using the FireWire port in a raw format (byte for byte) to avoid any degradation in quality.
What (preferably open source) software would you recommend for Vista Basic?
Also, is there a standard file format?
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How to connect two Windows XP x86-64 PCs using FireWire?
I'm having trouble doing so. I basically want to transfer files between two PCs and also share the internet connection from one. As you may know Windows XP supports FireWire Network Adapters. What I've done so far:
I've tried setting up "office or…
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