Re: Fedora Core 3 and 1394 PCMCIA

From: Kevin Old <kevinold_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat 23 Apr 2005 - 16:38:04 CEST
Message-ID: <69d3ac77050423073815776050@mail.gmail.com> 



On 4/22/05, Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> wrote:


> Kevin Old wrote:


> > I'm trying to


> > mount an external harddrive via Firewire (it's in a USB 2.0/Firewire


> > enclosure).


> 


> One of many possible reasons: A few USB/FireWire combo devices have an


> extremely dumb port autosensing which switches to FireWire only if the


> PC provides bus power. CardBus cards do not serve bus power, even if


> they have 6-pin ports instead of the always unpowered 4-pin ports.



Stefan,



Thanks for your reply.  I ended up solving my problem by hooking up a


5V power supply to my external harddrive and FC3 was able to recognize


it.



Thanks for your help,


Kevin



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