I cannot seem to find a pc laptop that either has a 6 pin firewire port for protools or a pcmia slot for the belkin adaptor. are any of you using a non apple laptop to do your recording? If so please tell me whats working for ya
hard time with laptop
- Thread starter ashgallows
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I have a HP laptop with a built-in firewire port. Most the HP's I looked at when I bought it had them. I haven't recorded with it using the firewire port though, so I'm afraid I can't help you there.
-Steve
-Steve
Jarkko Mattheiszen
The FU guy.
Unfortunately most laptops come with a 4 pin FW port. Is the 6 pin version necessary? AFAIK it's only used for powering some equipment, and if the FW unit has the possibility to use an external power adapter you're better off that way anyway.
What ProTools hardware are you using? MBox?
If it's a Digi/M-Audio interface with an adapter then you can still use the 4-pin firewire hookup, just get a 6-pin -> 4-pin firewire cable. AFAIK the extra two pins are basically for bus-powering. The MBox is bus-powered though so you would need the 6-pin hookup.
~e.a
If it's a Digi/M-Audio interface with an adapter then you can still use the 4-pin firewire hookup, just get a 6-pin -> 4-pin firewire cable. AFAIK the extra two pins are basically for bus-powering. The MBox is bus-powered though so you would need the 6-pin hookup.
~e.a
it's a digi 002 rack. it only takes a 6 pin firewire cable. I just looked and there is a cable the has 4 on one end and 6 on the other. Will this still work? Only reason i ask is digi is some finiky s&$% lol
The 002R has a power cord, so yes, you can use the 6->4-pin firewire cable and it should work perfectly fine.
~e.a
~e.a
Jarkko Mattheiszen
The FU guy.
Most probably yes, if you can plug another power source to the 002 (which I remember you can).
Jarkko Mattheiszen
The FU guy.
sounds good. i am going to shoot them an e-mail jsut in case (dont want o make an $900 mistake). i will post on here what they say for future refernce.
o.k. of course digi wont tell me without charging my f#$%ing card, but i did find a site that sells them and they noted that the 4-6 pin adaptor is what you need to do, so obviously they've tested this and it works. thanks all!
