laptop: Connecting firewire

oczdude8 · Sep 12, 2013

I have a firewire external sound card that I want to use with my laptop. However, my laptop doesn't have any firewire ports.

I am aware that there are NO USB to firewire card, since they have compatibility issues.

Anyone know any clever ways to connect the firewire to my laptop??

Laptop: Lenovo y580
-couple USB ports
-Ethernet port
-hdmi
-vga

torbendalum · Sep 12, 2013

You can't, the only way would have been if your computer had express card port, but it does not look like it. then you could have used this http

/www.ebay.com/bhp/firewire-express-card

torbendalum · Sep 12, 2013

sorry I was wrong. usb to firewire do exist http

/www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-USB-To-Firewire-iEEE-1394-4-Pin-iLink-Adapter-Cable-/180563635904

oczdude8 · Sep 12, 2013

I was thinking of using a sata to firewire card, but i would need esata ports for that. Is there something I can replace the optical drive with that provides esata?

oczdude8 · Sep 12, 2013

torbendalum :

Unfortunately, these are fake. USB just simply, by the way it works, is completely incompatible with firewire. A USB to fire wire converter would likely require a small processer and power source and will cost as much as a laptop, if someone makes them.

torbendalum · Sep 12, 2013

OK I read that some usb to firewire adapters do exist, with power from usb, maybe it is not true. esata to firewire will never work as they work very different, usb to firewire should be possible I think, with converter chip of course.

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