Wetzel
03-01-2005, 05:28 PM
I just got my first ipod, a 40 GB ipod Photo (so cheap on buy.com!) and I've been loading it up with music. I first plugged into my firewire PCI card, but transfers were going at about 2 MB/s, which was much slower than what I had read the ipod should work at, so I switched to USB 2.0, and now i'm getting ~ 7-8 MB/s.
I'd really rather use firewire (if only because then I can carry around my USB cable for plugging into computers at school, and I'm also running out of USB ports), so why are my firewire transfers going so much slower than with USB? I searched around the forum a bit, and found something about VIA chipsets in motherboards, but my motherboard doesn't even have firewire, it's in a PCI card I bought. I don't know what chipset the card uses (it could easily be VIA, though) . . .
Also, from what I've read, the Windows XP SP2 firewire issues only affect firewire 800 devices right?
Any insight would be helpful.
My Specs (if they make a difference):
Windows XP SP2
ipod photo 40 GB
internal firewire add-on card (cheapie no-name brand)
dell dimension 4550
2.4 ghz penitum 4
1 GB PC2700 DDR ram
I'd really rather use firewire (if only because then I can carry around my USB cable for plugging into computers at school, and I'm also running out of USB ports), so why are my firewire transfers going so much slower than with USB? I searched around the forum a bit, and found something about VIA chipsets in motherboards, but my motherboard doesn't even have firewire, it's in a PCI card I bought. I don't know what chipset the card uses (it could easily be VIA, though) . . .
Also, from what I've read, the Windows XP SP2 firewire issues only affect firewire 800 devices right?
Any insight would be helpful.
My Specs (if they make a difference):
Windows XP SP2
ipod photo 40 GB
internal firewire add-on card (cheapie no-name brand)
dell dimension 4550
2.4 ghz penitum 4
1 GB PC2700 DDR ram