Re: [LAU] Anyone used a Firewire-to-USB3 or ESATA adapter?

On 04/17/2014 02:40 AM, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> david wrote:
>> On 04/15/2014 11:46 PM, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
>>> david wrote:
>>>> there's no Windows 7 device driver for his Firewire PC Card adapter.
>>>
>>> All FireWire controllers use the same driver interface (OHCI), and that
>>> driver ships with Windows.
>>>
>>> If there is a problem, it is with the PC Card controller driver.
>>
>> Hmm, no, that's not what Windows 7 said about his Firewire PC card
>> device. It said he needed to get and install a driver for it.
>
> Internally, there's more than one device involved, and the actual
> FireWire controller is only the last one. What particular device did
> Windows complain about?

I don't remember specifically now. That was well over a year ago.

>>>> So I thought, maybe a Firewire<->USB adaptor would work.
>>>
>>> These are completely different protocols; they cannot be mapped to each
>>> other.
>>
>> Yet there are a bunch of connectors that appear to do that, although
>> probably not reliable enough for serious use.
>
> There is partial degree of reliability. Either the port has been
> constructed to be a FireWire port with a USB jack (where the adapter
> just maps the pins back), or it doesn't work at all.

I noticed that most of the comments where they worked involved video
cameras or storage devices, not audio devices.

>>>> Unfair: There's an Apple Thunderbolt to FireWire Adapter!
>>>
>>> Thunderbolt is just a PCIe bus.
>>
>> Then why not a Firewire<>ESATA adaptor?
>
> Because SATA is a completely different protocol. This could work only
> with FireWire hard disks.

Thanks. Didn't know SATA/ESATA was limited to storage devices; thought
it was more flexible.

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