powered firewire

[kenji_1027]

I bought a belkin firewire card but cant plug the card in to the power supply. can i still use the ipod with the firewire card?

[godcha]

I don't know the Belkin firewire card, but what do you mean with "cant plug the card in to the power supply"? How do you plug a PCI card [presuming it's a PCI card] into the power supply? You just put it in a PCI slot...voila or is the Belkin card having a special/separate [extra] power connector such as seen at certain video cards?

[ashawley]

gocha: some firewire cards have a plug on them to accept a power from your power supply directly instead of feeding off of the PCI bus. Most don't but some do.

Kenjii: is there a reason you can't connect a power supply cord to the card? Do you not have any spare ones left? If not, it should work w/o it, just try it....

Adam

[kenji_1027]

i just got my ipod today from apple so when its done charging i will try it out.

[kenji_1027]

its working. thanks anyway

[godcha]

Originally posted by ashawley
gocha: some firewire cards have a plug on them to accept a power from your power supply directly instead of feeding off of the PCI bus. Most don't but some do.
Thought so but I haven't read about nor saw this feature yet on firewire cards; seems logical anyways.
Thanks for the heads up.