PCMCIA Firewire with Juice?

[petjuli]

Been looking all over and can't seem to find anything already posted on this forum or the net. I am looking for a reliable, POWERED 6 pin firewire card for my PCMCIA slot (Win XP). I am going to be doing a fair amount of travelling this coming year and would love to be able to play (AND CHARGE) my Pod directly form the laptop firewire card. I have builtin firewire on the laptop, but only 4 pin, so no juice there. I really don't want one of those cards (OrangeMicro) that needs an external wall plug, I'd like to have it all run through the laptop. Any ideas? Thanks.

[ashawley]

You're not going to get a "powered" PCMCIA card. The PCMCIA slot doesn't have enough juice to power the iPod.

So, you're stuck with 1 of two options:

1) get a card w/an external power supply as you've seen

2) get a card that has 2 6-pin ports. One port goes to the iPod, the other (w/a second firewire cable), goes to the iPod's AC adaptor.

Adam

[BellnoPred]

You can also get a firewire hub that would provide tranfers and power at the same time. I have one myself and it recharges my ipod when I shut off my laptop.

[Umper Funter]

Originally posted by ashawley
You're not going to get a "powered" PCMCIA card. The PCMCIA slot doesn't have enough juice to power the iPod.

So, you're stuck with 1 of two options:

1) get a card w/an external power supply as you've seen

2) get a card that has 2 6-pin ports. One port goes to the iPod, the other (w/a second firewire cable), goes to the iPod's AC adaptor.

Adam
I've got a 2 port (6-pin) PCMCIA card. If I've read your post correctly by plugging the 2nd port into my AC adaptor that will power my Ipod while it's plugged into the other 6-pin port? This would be great if it's true. That is my only complaint is that battery life is very short when managing files with a PC...

[nick190]

You understood him correctly.
-Nick

[Umper Funter]

Originally posted by nick190
You understood him correctly.
-Nick

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